ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistan's deposed chief justice left his Islamabad home on Tuesday to join a "long march" calling for the government to reinstate him and other judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf.
Hundreds of lawyers pumped their fists in the air and chanted "Go Musharraf go!" and "Here comes the lion!" as Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry set off for the city's airport in a convoy of vehicles, an AFP photographer witnessed.
Chaudhry, who was sacked by Musharraf under emergency rule in November, will fly to Lahore and then drive to the central city of Multan as part of a caravan of vehicles before addressing lawyers from across the country.
The lawyers are due to hold a major protest in Islamabad on Thursday.
Hundreds of lawyers pumped their fists in the air and chanted "Go Musharraf go!" and "Here comes the lion!" as Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry set off for the city's airport in a convoy of vehicles, an AFP photographer witnessed.
Chaudhry, who was sacked by Musharraf under emergency rule in November, will fly to Lahore and then drive to the central city of Multan as part of a caravan of vehicles before addressing lawyers from across the country.
The lawyers are due to hold a major protest in Islamabad on Thursday.
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