Musharraf withdraws a charge against CJ

Pakistan’s government on Monday withdrew an accusation of judicial misconduct against the country’s chief justice although he still faces other accusations that the Supreme Court is due to rule on this week. President Pervez Musharraf suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on March 9 after drawing up a set of accusations—known as a reference—against him. A lawyer representing Musharraf in the case told the Supreme Court the president had asked that an accusation against Chaudhry—that there were times when the judge gave differing written and verbal orders—be withdrawn. “We are withdrawing this portion of the reference on the instruction of the president,” he told the court.