AFP, Islamabad

Riot police have blocked former premier Nawaz Sharif from meeting Pakistan’s deposed chief justice, who is under effective house arrest for refusing to endorse emergency rule, witnesses said Thursday.
Opposition leader Sharif was turned back by around 300 policemen manning concrete and barbed wire barricades near the Islamabad residence of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, an AFP reporter saw.
Hundreds of Sharif’s supporters chanted “Long live Nawaz Sharif” after their leader was turned back and burned a large poster of President Pervez Musharraf, who imposed a state of emergency on November 3. [Read more]