ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistani president, retired General Pervez Musharraf, was due to appear in the Supreme Court court in Islamabad on Wednesday to explain why he fired the country's top judiciary and imposed emergency rule in November 2007.
Musharraf, though, who now lives in exile in England, did not respond to the non-binding order issued last week by a 14-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary, the chief justice whom Musharraf suspended in March 2007, which sparked a judicial crisis culminating in the sacking of the judiciary and the imposition of emergency rule.
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