Josefa Iloilo, the president of Fiji who in 2009 provoked worldwide censure by tossing out the island nation's Constitution, firing its judges and naming himself head of state, died on Feb. 6 in Suva, Fiji's capital.
Last month, days before Mr. Chaudhry's court was widely expected to declare Mr. Musharraf ineligible to serve a third term, Mr. Musharraf declared emergency rule, suspended the Constitution, fired the Supreme Court and blocked all independent news broadcasts.
On Nov. 3, Mr. Musharraf declared a state of emergency, abrogated Pakistan's Constitution, fired the Supreme Court, blacked out the independent news channels and arrested more than 5,000 of his opponents.
The channel, Geo, and other television networks, were taken off the air after President Pervez Musharraf imposed a state of emergency in the country on Nov. 3 as he suspended the Constitution, fired the Supreme Court and blocked all independent news media.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sunday, Nov. 4— The Pakistani leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, declared a state of emergency on Saturday night, suspending the country's Constitution, firing the chief justice of the Supreme Court and filling the streets of this capital city with police officers.
This may have been the last time that the Constitution fired her cannons in anger.
His decision to suspend the Constitution and fire the Supreme Court was taken days before the court was due to decide whether his re-election on Oct. 6 was valid.
The legacy of a "No" vote, he predicts, "will not be to kill off the campaign for independence - which will continue - but to put everything on the table in terms of rebuilding the constitution, to fire up debates on welfare, on pensions, on the economy, which were not being had before".
On Nov. 3, days before the Supreme Court was to rule on the challenges, General Musharraf suspended the Constitution and fired several justices.
One of General Musharraf's main justifications for suspending the Constitution and firing the members of the Supreme Court was the need to combat extremists sympathetic to the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
