Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (Urdu: افتخار محمد چودھری) (born 12 December 1948 in Quetta) is the current and most controversial Chief Justice of Pakistan. He was appointed as Chief Justice by Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on May 7, 2005. He was suspended by President General Musharraf on March 9, 2007, when he refused to oblige Musharraf by refusing to resign. The move provided a pretext to the anti-Musharraf political forces to provide funds for Lawyers' Movement which claimed as its first victory the reinstatement of Chaudhry by an order dated July 20, 2007 of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Khalil Ramdey who was closely associated with Mian Nawaz Sharif the former Prime Minister of Pakistan who was ousted by the military for having hijacked General Musharraf's aircraft on 12th of August 1999. Chaudhry was represented before a Full Court by the disgruntled Aitzaz Ahsan, who was not given any important position by General Musharaf, Benazir Bhutto or Asif Ali Zardari. This judgment of 20 July [PLD 2007 SC 578] essentially without reasons because these reasons were to be recorded later in the detailed judgment which has not been rendered uptill now.