Musharraf Tightens Media Grip
Pakistan’s growing independent media finds itself under threat for its coverage of the crisis stemming from the president’s dismissal of the...
Interviewer: Carin Zissis
March 27, 2007
Manjeet Kripalani, CFR press fellow and India bureau chief for BusinessWeek, discusses the increasing social unrest in Pakistan caused by President Pervez Musharraf's decision to suspend Chief Justice Iftikar Chaudhry. She says the crisis could leave the president's political future "extremely uncertain."
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