{"id":293,"date":"2007-11-06T10:42:25","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T14:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2007\/11\/06\/in-pakistan-a-clash-of-law-and-order"},"modified":"2007-11-06T10:42:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T14:42:25","slug":"in-pakistan-a-clash-of-law-and-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2007\/11\/in-pakistan-a-clash-of-law-and-order\/","title":{"rendered":"In Pakistan, a clash of law and order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/files\/2007\/11\/ap-pakistan-lawyer.jpg\" alt=\"Police give lawyers the beat-down\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something about the incongruity of saffron-robed monks and black-suited lawyers protesting in the streets that gets you to think that there&#8217;s something really worth fighting for.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever jokes comedians crack about the legal profession, these attorneys are risking their lives and freedoms to protest Musharraf&#8217;s declaration of emergency rule and dismissal of Pakistan&#8217;s chief justice.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if their brethren attorneys here in the United States would ever take such courageous stands on injustice in Guantanimo and warrantless wiretapping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something about the incongruity of saffron-robed monks and black-suited lawyers protesting in the streets that gets you to think that there&#8217;s something really worth fighting for. Whatever jokes comedians crack about the legal profession, these attorneys are risking their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2007\/11\/in-pakistan-a-clash-of-law-and-order\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}