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News Analysis

Sharif savours victory

AFP, Islamabad
The restoration of top judges two years after their dismissal will give Pakistan desperately needed rule oflaw and marks up a victory for opposition leader Nawaz Sharif, analysts said.
Hours before a planned march by lawyers and opposition parties was due to descend on Islamabad, the government Monday caved into public pressure and agreed to reinstate the judges and end a repressive crackdown on activists.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, in a dawn address to the nation, announced that all judges including chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry sacked by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf would resume office from March 21.
The decision came after a series of meetings he and army chief General Ashfaq Kayani held with President Asif Ali Zardari to avert bloodshed and instability in the frontline US ally in the "war on terror".
Main opposition leader
Sharif, a former prime minister who galvanised opponents of Zardari and led thousands of protesters in a march out of Lahore, hailed the announcement and promptly called off a mass protest.
The government's climbdown was widely seen as a product of Western pressure on Zardari to defuse the standoff with Sharif, and Gilani's orders to release hundreds of people in detention as a victory for rights.
"I think it's a huge victory for civil society, lawyers and Nawaz Sharif," defence and political analyst Talat Masood said. "It came too late but it came before (the protesters reached) Islamabad" and averted expected clashes.
"Sharif took a firm stand, his stature has gone up." he said.
"For the first time in Pakistan's history, an independent judiciary will be there to strengthen the rule oflaw."
"It will also help counter radicalism and extremism.-"
US officials were seen as
instrumental in trying to encourage Zardari and Sharif to end their standoff.
Masood said Americans played a "very positive" role. They have understood that Sharif s party is an important political force in Pakistan and there is no need to have any confrontation. Their role was very constructive."
Jaffer Ahmed, director of the Pakistan Study Centre at Karachi University, described the agreement as a major step forward for the country, but slammed Zardari for miscalculating at every stage.
"President Zardari lost a good opportunity to take ownership of the lawyers movement. Nawaz Sharif captured it and emerged as a big leader," he said.
"Sharifs right-wing party has become popular and the secular Pakistan People's Party is weakened. It is alienated by the civil society, because of Zardari's wrong policies and wrong advisers," he said.