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Both NBC and CBS positioned a correspondent in Pakistan in anticipation of a showdown in Islamabad between street protestors demanding the reinstatement of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and riot police loyal to President Asif Zardari. No such clash eventuated, CBS' Richard Roth reported: "The jubilant crowd surrounded the Chief Justice after the government gave in and gave him back his job." Zardari had held out so long because Chaudhry had accused him of corruption, NBC's Richard Engel pointed out. Engel suggested that a factor in Zadari's change of heart had been a warning by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that US aid to Pakistan might be discontinued. Perhaps. More plausible is Engel's reporting that "Zardari called the chief of the Pakistani army on Sunday to stop the protests but the army chief refused."
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