The other face belonged to Abdul Qadir Khan, the nuclear scientist credited with helping Pakistan develop an atomic bomb but also blamed for heading a nuclear network that supplied the likes of North Korea and Libya.

It just so happens the two men remain under house arrest barely a mile from each other in the clean and orderly Pakistan capital, Islamabad. The last time I tried to bang on Mr Khan's door I was given short shrift by the plainclothes intelligence officers and police standing on duty opposite his house. Rather than being a rogue freelancer, which is the story that Musharraf delivered to the West, many believe Khan is the fall-guy for successive Pakistani administrations who have been pedalling and swapping nuclear know-how with the sort of "axis of evil" countries" the West loves to hate.

What's clear is that there is no desire whatsoever among the Pakistani establishment to let the Americans questions him. My suspicion is that the Americans are equally happy with this arrangement. After reading Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark's terrifying new investigation, I'm convinced the US does not want its willingness to look the other way as Pakistan developed the bomb, examined in any further detail.

But I was hoping that while Mr Khan may still be out of bounds, this week's election may have loosened the chains holding Mr Chaudhry. No such luck.

On election day itself I attended a press conference organised by the Chief Justice's friend and lawyer, Atar Minallah, who railed against Mr Musharraf for keeping him locked up while government officials ministers claimed he was free to leave.

We asked the police officer in charge how it could be that the interior minister had said the judge could come and leave his house and yet here he was with 30 police officers carrying batons and standing behind acres of barbed wire. The officer looked embarrassed and said: "It's not my policy".

The answer, of course, is that Mr Musharraf loathes Mr Chaudhry for daring to challenge him and for "interfering" in politics - that is daring to question the constitutionality of many of Mr Musharraf's actions. When Mr Chaudhry - restored to his position by the courts - refused to go along with Mr Musharraf's imposition of a state of emergency in November, Mr Musharraf's arrested him and put him under house arrest. He has been there ever since, even his young children who are also unable to leave the house.

Yesterday, in the aftermath of Mr Musharraf's defeat, I headed back to Mr Chaudhry's house with a colleague, Bruce Loudon, the experienced and good natured correspondent from The Australian newspaper. I had an idea that the police might have suddenly changed their minds and that we might get a scoop, though Bruce was more sceptical. As it turned out he was right and I was wrong. Though there were only a handful of police compared to the dozens the day before, they still would not let us through the barbed wire to Mr Chaudhry's house.

So this week in Pakistan, after an election in which the public overwhelmingly expressed its rejection of Mr Musharraf's policies and where Mr Sharif's PML-N party soared to second place, we still have a situation in which citizens remain locked up in their homes on the orders of one man. At least the police at Mr Chaudhry's house were good natured enough to pose for a picture. Perhaps Mr Chaudhry will soon be permitted to do the same.