Need to get up to speed with the Paki situation in a jiffy?

You can find a chronology of events to refresh your memory here.

And I hadn't heard this yet: Musharraf unveils iron fist as the former Supreme Court justice is taken into custody. So is the newly elected president of the Supreme Court Bar Association.

2:32 pm update: More lawyers are arrested and others are urged to go into hiding. Court boycott called for.

3:39 pm update: Musharraf speaks English in remarks directed at US, compares himself to Lincoln.

The bulk of the president's address was in Urdu, but he switched to English toward the end to make an appeal to Pakistan's "friends in the West--the U.S., the European Union and the Commonwealth." Musharraf asked for understanding of the "critical situation" the nation was in.

"Please do not expect or demand your level of democracy, which you learned over a number of centuries. Please also do not demand or expect your number of civil rights, human rights or civil liberties … Please give us time. For me and every Pakistani, Pakistan comes first," Musharraf said, comparing his actions with those of former U.S. president Abraham Lincoln to preserve the union.

5:03 pm update: Bio-data for new Supreme Court Justice and judges can be found here. One of the new justices looks to have specialized in Sharia law. Ugh. Needless to say I can't get the government of Pakistan's official website to load.