Among the judges who have been sacked are 15 of the Supreme Court, 41 of the Lahore High Court, 27 of the Sindh High Court, 10 of the Peshawar High Court, all five of the Balochistan High Court, eight of the Islamabad High Court and four of the Federal Shariat Court.

All of them had taken oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order that Musharraf had promulgated along with the emergency. Chaudhry and some 80 other judges of the Supreme Court and the high courts had refused to take a fresh oath and found themselves without a job.

On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that all these judges would be immediately reinstated.

However, even as the court invalidated the emergency and all of Musharraf's subsequent actions, it stopped short of censuring the former president as had been demanded in a petition on the basis of which it delivered its judgement.