Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry blockade in Lahore en route to Islamabad in the night between 15 and 16 March 2009. A few hours later, on the morning of 16 March 2009, the prime minister of Pakistan restored Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as chief justice of Pakistan through an executive order, after which the opposition agreed to stop the "long march". Chaudhry surprised the whole country when he suspended the privatisation of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) on the plea of the PSM workers' union. It did not merely embarrass the government but jeopardised the whole privatisation process. Chaudhry, who was heading the bench, observed that the
Chaudhry Iftikhar Hussain 1979. In 1994, he was appointed as the judge of Lahore High Court and was confirmed on confirmed 5 June 1995. He took oath on Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) and was appointed Chief Justice of Lahore High Court on 7 September 2002 by Pervaiz Musharraf where he served till 12 December 2007. Chaudhry Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry Iftikhar Hussain (1946 – 6 June 2015) was a Pakistani jurist who served as the 36th Chief Justice of Lahore High Court from 2002 to 2007. Hussain was born in 1946 in Jhelum. He received his early education from Lahore and Jhelum. He graduated