(24 Sep 2007) SHOTLIST
1. Pan left to Jammat Islami party members protesting, holding flags and chanting anti-Musharraf slogans
2. Mid of protesters (Jammat Islami party members) chanting anti-Musharraf slogans
3. Close-up of protester chanting slogan (English) "Go Musharraf go"
4. Tilt-down of security on high alert
5. Various of police arresting protesters
6. Group of police on horses
7. Various of arrested protestors in police prison van
8. Police arrest Siraj Ul Haq, Leader of MMA (Muthida Majlas Amal)
9. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Siraj Ul Haq, Senior Minister of NWFP and Leader of MMA:
"We are protesting because Musharraf is involved in corruption and other cases that's why don't accept him as president. Yesterday they (the government) arrested our leaders without any reason. The entire nation is protesting and it will continue to do so"
10. Ahmed Raza Kasuri, Government lawyer coming in Supreme court of Pakistan
11. Anti Musharraf lawyer spraying black pain on the face of Ahmed Raza Kasuri (Musharraf Lawyer) and abusing Ahemd Raza Kasuri with black face going inside supreme court
12. Itzaz Ahsan getting down from car and entering in court
13. Mid of Supreme court of Pakistan building
STORYLINE:
Riot police arrested dozens of opposition activists protesting against President General Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad on Monday, as Pakistan's Supreme Court dismissed three legal challenges to his re-election bid.
However, the the nine-judge panel was still weighing seven remaining petitions arguing that Musharraf's dual role as army chief and president is illegal and that he is ineligible to seek another five-year term.
Musharraf has offered to resign his military role if he wins the Oct. 6 vote.
Monday's protest included several prominent figures of Pakistan's opposition from taking part in the protest - including Itzaz Ahsan an active member of the Pakistan Peoples Party.
Opposition parties claim hundreds of their members have been detained since police began taking their leaders into preventive custody late on Saturday for allegedly planning to promote unrest.
"Yesterday they (the government) arrested our leaders without any reason. The entire nation is protesting and it will continue to do so," said Siraj Ul Haq, a senior minister from Pakistan's North West Frontier Province and leader of the Muthida Majlas Amal opposition group.
Pictures filmed by an AP Television crew showed an Anti-Musharraf lawyer spraying black paint on the face of Ahmed Raza Kasuri, a lawyer representing Musharraf's government's in a number of cases pending at the Supreme Court.
Officials imposed a ban on gatherings of more than five people in the capital and roads leading to the court were blocked with barbed wire.
Musharraf's popularity and power have eroded since his botched effort to fire the Supreme Court's chief justice earlier this year.
His administration is also struggling to contain a surge in Islamic militancy.
Musharraf has called for moderate political forces to unite to defeat extremism and has held talks on a possible power-sharing deal with former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who has vowed to return home on October 18 after eight years of self-imposed exile.
But Bhutto has also threatened to withdraw her lawmakers from Parliament if Musharraf does not compromise.
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