Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (Urdu: افتخار محمد چودھری) (born 12 December 1948 in Quetta) is the current 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 sparked the historic Lawyers' Movement which claimed as its first victory the reinstatement of Chaudhry by an order of the Supreme Court on July 20, 2007. Chaudhry was represented before a Full Court by Aitzaz Ahsan, Shahid Saeed, Gohar Ali Khan and Nadeem Ahmed [PLD 2007 SC 578].This was the first recorded case of such suspension in the history of Pakistan.
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