The highest court in Pakistan moves to save Pakisatni children and women holed up between Army and Islamic extremists - how will Musharraf react?
Kiran Chaube
Jul. 9, 2007

Does the dictator need another new Chief Justice to comply with his whims? Probably not, because he has enough of that.

Pakistani Government faces a challenge that is normal when you allow extremism to grow in your soil. Pakistan today faces the Islamic extremists and their uncontrolled whims - the one that they instigated for decades.

The Pakistani President issued an ultimatum but the highest court did not. It dampens the Pakistani Army's desire to wipe the situation out of media reports.

Pakistan's top court on Monday intervened in the tense battle between government forces and Muslim militants at a besieged Islamabad mosque, saying it wanted to save the lives of women and children inside.

The court scheduled an afternoon hearing on whether it should dictate the government's security actions to avoid a bloody storming of Lal Masjid in the heart of the Pakistan capital, as president Pervez Musharraf has threatened.

A possible court intervention to overrule executive power, unique to the Pakistani judicial system, arose amid public outcry of concern for those inside the compound as well as for neighbors suffering the siege and curfew.

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