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TO LIVE OR TO PERISH FOREVER: TWO TUMULTUOUS YEARS IN PAKISTAN Nicholas Schmidle (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2009), 272 pages.
In March 2007, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf sacked Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry as a result of the latter's refusal to endorse a renewal of Musharraf's presidency. Chaudhry 's dismissal exposed Pakistani civil society's growing distrust of Musharraf's rule, moving the nation to the verge of instability.
American journalist Nicholas Schmidle was in Karachi in May 2007, when the pro-Musharraf Muttahida Quami Movement staged a rally on the same day Chaudhry was to address a gathering of lawyers in the...