Baton-wielding police fought with lawyers outside courthouses in Islamabad and Lahore again Tuesday, arresting dozens more as they enforced Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's crackdown on judicial activism. With one in four lawyers now jailed and many judges detained in their homes, surrounded by soldiers, Pakistan's judicial system is in lockdown three days after Musharraf suspended the constitution and declared a state of emergency. (CNN, Tuesday)
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
–William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2, Act 4, Scene II
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