Pakistani Judges Bear Brunt of Emergency.

A month after emergency rule was imposed, the gate to deposed Supreme Court Judge Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday's house remains locked. Five officers stand sentry outside, allowing him to leave only on Fridays to pray at a mosque under police escort.

"I'm being held here as a prisoner," the 62-year-old Ramday told The Associated Press by telephone from his residence in Lahore. [...]

"The primary issue for the U.S. was their conviction that restoring the judges was the one thing Musharraf would never, never be willing to do, and their desire to keep Musharraf in charge of Pakistan's government," said Teresita C. Schaffer, director for South Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

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