For much of the past two years, the judiciary has been at the centre of political turmoil in Pakistan. It could be again after the decision by the country's Supreme Court to declare Pervez Musharraf's former state of emergency illegal. On July 31st the court's full bench, led by the chief justice, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, struck down the "provisional constitutional order" of November 3rd, 2007, and declared all decrees based on it unconstitutional. The order had amounted to a second coup by Mr Musharraf, enabling him to rule by decree, sack troublesome judges such as Mr Chaudhry and become president while remaining army chief.
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机译：在过去两年的大部分时间里，司法机构一直是巴基斯坦政治动荡的中心。该国最高法院可能宣布穆沙拉夫的前紧急状态为非法，这可能再次发生。 7月31日，由首席大法官Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry领导的法院全体法官推翻了2007年11月3日的“临时宪法令”，并宣布基于该法令的所有法令均属违宪。该命令是穆沙拉夫先生的第二次政变，使他得以通过法令进行统治，解雇乔杜里先生等麻烦的法官，并在继续担任陆军首长的同时担任总统。
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