(9 Feb 2008)
Islamabad
1. Wide of march in support of lawyers and judges under house arrest
2. Mid of placards
3. Woman chanting
4. Mid of black-suited lawyers chanting
5. Back shot of riot police with batons and shields, clashing with lawyers and political and human rights activists
6. Police chasing protesters
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ghazala Minallah, civil society activist:
"This is not what Pakistan was made for. This is not the country I want my kids to grow up in!"
8. Police hitting a lawyer with batons
9. Various of clashes
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tahira Abdullah, Women's Action Forum:
"Police has - as usual - done its utmost to brutally repress a peaceful protest march that we were doing, the lawyers, and civil society and students." 11. Wide of riot police, zoom out to protesters in the foreground
12. Protesters holding placards, throwing stones, water being sprayed by water cannon
13. Various of clashes
14. Police using water cannon against protesters
Quetta
15. Various of Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid group) (PML- Q) political party workers welcoming party leadership on the stage, shouting slogans and holding up placards
16. Stage with former Chief Minister of Punjab and PML (Q) prime ministerial candidate Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi sitting along with other party officials
17. Security
18. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, PML (Q) Prime Ministerial candidate:
"We will initiate programmes to decrease unemployment, provide more jobs, and bring development to this province and bring welfare"
19. Wide of party workers chanting slogans (Urdu) "Go forward Pervaiz Elahi we are with you".
STORYLINE:
Police using tear gas and water cannons clashed on Saturday with hundreds of lawyers to block them from reaching the barricaded house of Pakistan's deposed chief justice.
About 1,500 black-suited lawyers marched on the residence of Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, the detained top judge of the Supreme Court who was fired by President Pervez Musharraf three months ago.
"Police has - as usual - done its utmost to brutally repress a peaceful protest march that we were doing," said Tahira Abdullah, of the Women's Action Forum, a women's rights organisation.
The lawyers, and civil society and students were going from (President of the Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Association) Aitzaz Ahsan's house to the residence of the Chief Justice of Pakistan, she told AP Television.
After the lawyers tried to breach the barbed-wire barricade, hundreds of police in riot gear drove them back by firing tear gas and shooting water cannons from a fire truck.
They also charged the crowd and beat lawyers with their batons. Some of the lawyers threw stones at police.
There were no immediate reports of serious injuries in the clash in the capital, Islamabad.
Earlier Saturday, Pakistan's Bar Council announced a nationwide lawyers' boycott of courts until February 18th elections - part of a campaign to pressure the government to restore deposed top judges.
Athar Minallah, a prominent Supreme Court lawyer, said the decision was made at a council convention in Islamabad before they marched on Chaudhry's house. Minallah was among several lawyers later arrested.
Meanwhile in the western city of Quetta, a pro-government political party, the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid group), held a campaign rally, as political parties geared up for the February 18 national elections.
AP Television footage showed party workers and supporters shouting slogans and cheering the prime ministerial candidate for the PML (Q) Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi.
An estimated 1500 people attended the rally.
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