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Police union makes public plea
SPRINGFIELD - In the latest twist in the ongoing dispute between Springfield Police Chief Doug Johnston and members of his department, the police union has mailed out a letter asking residents to lobby town officials for
The two-page letter from United Electrical Workers Local 218 started arriving in mail boxes on Thursday and Friday at a time when the union and the town are waiting to see if the Vermont Labor Relations Board acts on an unfair labor practice charge brought by the union in February claiming a hostile work environment caused by Johnston.
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Protests mount against Musharr
Islamabad and other Pakistani cities have seen violent confrontations in recent days between security forces and lawyers, opposition political activists, and ordinary Pakistanis opposing the attempt of the country’s US-backed military strongman, General Pervez Musharraf, to fire the head of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.
To prevent protests last Friday when Chief Justice Chaudhry was to appear before the Supreme Judicial Council, the police detained scores of political leaders. Then, in an attempt to stop live broadcast of the protests, which occurred nonetheless, the police raided the private GEO television station, ransacked the facility, and roughed up many of the station’s personnel.
Later that day, Musharraf, who seized power in a military coup in October 1999 and is touted by the Bush administration as one of its chief allies in the “war on terror,” found it politic to appear on television and condemn the police raid. While some low-level police were subsequently suspended, according to eyewitnesses the raid was led by senior police officials.
On March 9, Musharraf suspended Chief Justice Chaudhry, accusing him of “misconduct and misuse of authority,” ordered the judicial council to investigate corruption allegations, named an interim head justice, and effectively placed Chaudhry under house arrest.
The corruption charges are a transparent ploy. It is well known that the current cabinet and the government benches in the Pakistani parliament are stacked with politicians whom Musharraf induced to defect from Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) by gathering, then suppressing, evidence of their corrupt practices.
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