By IRNA
Islamabad : Pakistan Prime Minister-elect Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday ordered the release of deposed judges soon after he was elected the country’s new Prime Minister.
President Pervez Musharraf had sacked and detained the country’s Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chuadhry and around 60 top judges when he proclaimed emergency on November 3rd.
The deposed chief justice and several other judges are detained at their houses since then.
“I order the immediate release of all judges of the superior judiciary,” Gillani said in his first speech in the National Assembly.
“I appeal to the judges to solve their problems through parliament despite protest as parliament is the highest body of the country,” the Prime Minister-elect said amid slogans in favour the deposed judges and against President Pervez Musharraf.
Gilani appealed to the National Assembly to pass a resolution to demand the UN inquiry into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on December 27th.
He also said the National Assembly must pass a resolution to apologize on the ‘judicial murder’ of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
The Islamabad police started removing barbed wire and cemented blocks on the road leading to the judicial colony where the judges are detained in their houses.