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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Pakistan reinstates sacked chief justice AFP - Tuesday, March 17 ISLAMABAD (AFP) - - Pakistan pledged on Monday to restore its deposed top judge and end a crackdown on activists, caving in under mass protests to try to defuse a crisis that took the nation to the brink of chaos. ADVERTISEMENT Main opposition leader Nawaz Sharif welcomed what he called an historic achievement and promptly called off a mass protest march that had been due to descend on the capital Monday, averting widespread fears of unrest. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's climbdown, in a dawn address to the nation, followed overnight talks with President Asif Ali Zardari and the army chief determined to avert chaos in the central front in the "war on terror". "I announce today that Iftikhar Chaudhry and all other deposed judges will be reinstated from March 21," when the current chief justice retires, he said. Zardari has come under massive Western pressure to defuse a stand-off with Sharif , who urged the masses to rise up against the government to demand that judges sacked under emergency rule be reinstated. "It is a historic day, a great day which will change the country's destiny," said Sharif from inside his car in the central city of Gujranwala, were he was showered with rose petals and mobbed by a sea of jubilant supporters. "We are now calling off this long march," he said, following discussions with lawyers and political allies including cricket hero Imran Khan. Gilani also overturned a repressive government clampdown designed to foil the protest march, ordering authorities to release all those arrested and declaring the immediate lifting of a ban on public demonstrations. "I want to congratulate the nation. Let us celebrate this with dignity," he said in an apparent plea for peaceful celebrations, one day after protests saw the worst street violence since the crisis unfolded nearly three weeks ago. The United States welcomed Gilani's announcement as a move to "defuse a serious confrontation" and a "substantial step towards national reconciliation," in a statement issued by its embassy in Islamabad. But a spokesman for Chaudhry sounded a note of caution. "There have been so many broken promises in the past. A lot of mistrust has been created. We have to see the official notification," Athar Minullah told reporters, stressing repeatedly that he was only expressing his own opinion. Later Monday, Chaudhry emerged from his home to appear in public for the first time since the announcement, beaming and waving at the crowds of supporters as two years' frustration ended in jubilation. He smiled as lawyers flashed victory signs, but did not speak publicly. The former chief justice was dismissed by Pervez Musharraf on November 3, 2007 along with 60 other judges, 53 of whom have since been reinstated. The former military ruler feared the judges would declare him ineligible to contest a presidential election while in military uniform. He first fired Chaudhry in March 2007, but the judge was reinstated on a supreme court appeal. Chaudhry's dismissal led to a countrywide protest that ultimately forced Musharraf to quit in August 2008, and his full reinstatement was a significant concession from a government that has reneged on previous pledges to do so. Pakistani shares rose by five percent, reflecting "a huge positive response" to Chaudhry's restoration, dealers said. But the stand-off has threatened to further destabilise the nuclear-armed state, which is on the front line of the fight against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. Sharif defied house arrest to lead thousands on Sunday in a banned protest through Lahore, where protesters dismantled barricades and fought pitched street battles with riot police armed with tear gas. Gilani said the government had decided to file a petition against the February 25 supreme court ruling that banned Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif from contesting elections. But analysts warned that the move pushed a weakened president deeper into the pocket of the army, which has ruled Pakistan for more than half its 62 years. "The judges' restoration will restore people's confidence in democracy but the army chief's role as mediator between the government and the opposition will increase Zardari's dependence on the army," said communications expert Tauseef Ahmed Khan. 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