03-25-2007, 03:24 AM
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KJM Varma | Islamabad
Creating history of sorts, Justice Rana Bhagwan Das, the second senior most and the only Hindu judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, on Saturday took over as the acting Chief Justice. He will now head the Supreme Judicial Council hearing charges against suspended Chief Justice Iftikar M Chaudhry.
Soon after he was sworn in, an SMS message did the rounds of Pakistani mobile phones saying, "For a country created in the name of Islam, the hope of justice for the 160 million Muslims of it rests in (the hands of) Bhagwan (Das).
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KJM Varma | Islamabad
Creating history of sorts, Justice Rana Bhagwan Das, the second senior most and the only Hindu judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, on Saturday took over as the acting Chief Justice. He will now head the Supreme Judicial Council hearing charges against suspended Chief Justice Iftikar M Chaudhry.
Soon after he was sworn in, an SMS message did the rounds of Pakistani mobile phones saying, "For a country created in the name of Islam, the hope of justice for the 160 million Muslims of it rests in (the hands of) Bhagwan (Das).
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