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Churches call for Pakistani government to lift state of emergency
The Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Church of Scotland, the Methodist Church, the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and the United Reformed Church have issued a joint statement calling on the Pakistani Government to lift the state of emergency.Pakistan has been in constitutional crisis since President Pervez Musharraf invoked the emergency rule two weeks ago. He has since announced that a general election will be held before January 9 and there are expectations that he will relinquish his role as army chief and run as a civilian president.
In a joint statement, the Church leaders welcomed the January general election but pressed the Pakistani Government to go further by carrying through “an immediate lifting of the current state of emergency”.
The Churches’ faith-based partners in Pakistan have, over the past year, reported their “increasing anxiety over damage to democratic process and the independence of the judiciary”, the Churches said.
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