Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/lawyers-emerge-as-key-players-in-pakistani-protests Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript The ousted chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court sought to rally lawyers Tuesday to continue street protests against President Pervez Musharraf's imposition of emergency rule. Regional experts discuss the pivotal role lawyers are playing in the protests and assess the latest developments in the crisis. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. LINDSEY HILSUM, ITV News Correspondent: I'm at the house where Benazir Bhutto is spending the night in Islamabad. Her people have come here to greet her, but she doesn't have the same level of support as in her hometown of Karachi. Yet in this situation, in this state of emergency, everyone's eyes are now on her next move.Landing in the capital this evening, she said she feared that General Musharraf would now delay elections. BENAZIR BHUTTO, Former Pakistani Prime Minister: It's essential. If this is not the case, for General Musharraf to come on television and announce that elections are being polled for January 16th, the assemblies are being dissolved on November 15th. Look, the assemblies have to be dissolved in nine days' time for the election schedule to be adhered to. LINDSEY HILSUM: She left the airport in an open-roofed vehicle, despite the bombs targeted on her motorcade in Karachi last month, in which 140 of her supporters were killed.The violence, however, was in Multan today, near Lahore, where lawyers and police clashed for a second day. Lawyers are still the main group demonstrating against what they say is martial law. But the protests are getting smaller as more lawyers are arrested.Members of the Islamabad Bar Association were on the streets before a telephone address by Iftikhar Chaudhry, the deposed Supreme Court justice who's under house arrest. IFTIKHAR CHAUDHRY, Former Chief Justice, Pakistan (through translator): I request the community of lawyers to go to every corner of Pakistan and give the message that this is the time to sacrifice. Don't be afraid. God will help us. And the day will come when you'll see the constitution supreme and no dictatorship for a long time. LINDSEY HILSUM: But the new chief justice, Abdul Hameed Dogar, swore in another four judges and set aside the ruling by the deposed Supreme Court that the state of emergency was illegal.General Musharraf wore military uniform at cabinet today. If the court says he may remain president, he'll be happy for parliamentary elections to go ahead.Benazir Bhutto's supporters will go along with whatever she decides, but many others in Pakistan will regard any elections while General Musharraf remains president as illegitimate.