Deal Struck to Reinstate Pakistan Judges

The Washington Post is reporting that the coalition government of Pakistan has agreed to reinstate the country's chief justice and 60 other judges through a parliamentary resolution scheduled for May 12, 2008. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani is expected to sign an executive order completing the arrangement.  Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry and the other judges were deposed last year under a controversial order by President Pervez Musharraf. [JH]