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• What it means to be Musharraf now?

  Published: October 14, 2007, 11:20 am

  Tags: Usa, Benazir Bhutto, Chaudhry, Musharraf, Nawas, Opinions, Pakistan

  On 6 October 2007 and after a ruling by Pakistani Supreme Court allowed polls to take place but restrained the official announcement of the results until it dealt with challenges to the candidacy of President...read more

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• Martial Law Lite?

  Published: November 4, 2007, 10:13 am

  Tags: Shaukat Aziz, Provisional Constitutional Order, Pakistan People S Party Ppp, Emergency Rule, Condoleeza Rice, Martial Law, Nawaz Sharif, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Harper, Pakistan, Musharraf, Autocrat, Benazir Bhutto, Judiciary, Canada

  Shorter Ali Eterez: “Military dictators do tend to make the trains run on time, don’t they?”* *headdesk* Cernig casually pushes a butterknife through the steaming, still-soft bullshit here (updating and correcting Libby’s initial post) and here, speculating that Musharraf’s motives are pretty simple (yet, thus far,

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• Troops attack protestors in Pakistan

  Published: November 5, 2007, 6:55 am

  Tags: Washington, Activists, Anti Musharraf, Arrest, Attack, Chaudhry, Civil, Government, Hundreds, Islamabad, Jail, Justice, March, Muhammad, Ousted, Pakistan, Pakistani, Policemen, Politics, Protest, Residence, Rights, Sunday, Troops, Trying

  BREAKING: Riot troops swept through Pakistan yesterday, tossing into jail hundreds of people who had been protesting martial law in that country. read more

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• Musharraf Declaration Seen as Latest Misstep

  Published: November 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Musharraf, Declaration, Seen, Latest, Misstep, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Mushahid Hussain, Talat Masood, Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, Benazir Bhutto, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Nawaz Sharif, United States

  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 4 -- Gen. Pervez Musharraf prides himself, above all, on being a survivor.

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• Troops Attack Protesters in Pakistan

  Published: November 5, 2007, 6:55 am

  Tags: Washington, Activists, Anti Musharraf, Arrest, Attack, Chaudhry, Civil, Government, Hundreds, Islamabad, Jail, Justice, March, Muhammad, Ousted, Pakistan, Pakistan Protest, Pakistani, Policemen, Politics, Protest, Residence, Rights, Sunday, Troops, Trying

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• General Pervez Musharraf declares martial law, yet another failure for US foreign policy

  Published: November 5, 2007, 7:11 pm

  Tags: General Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Chaudhry, Foreign Policy, Middle East, Mercenaries, Us News Israel Trial Condoleezza Rice Aipac Testif, Usa, Pakistan, Dictatorship

  Benazir Bhutto, Chaudhry, foreign policy, Middle East, Mercenaries, us-news, israel, trial, condoleezza-rice, aipac, testif, USA, eu, pakistan,

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• Musharraf Proposes Vote by January

  Published: November 12, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Musharraf, Proposes, Vote, January, Pervez Musharraf, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Benazir Bhutto, Lahore, Balochistan, Telegraph Group Ltd, Ahsan Iqbal, Anastasio Somoza, Asma Jahangir, Condoleezza Rice, Franklin D Roosevelt, Islamabad, London, Nawaz Sharif, Human Right

  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 11 -- Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, announced Sunday that he wanted parliamentary elections to be held by early January but did not set a date for ending emergency rule, making it likely that any elections will take place with the constitution suspended and...

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• Pakistan's Lawyers On the Front Lines

  Published: November 19, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Pakistan S, Lawyers, The, Front, Lines, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Pervez Musharraf, Islamabad, Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, Rawalpindi, Abdul Rehman, Asad Abbasi

  RAWALPINDI, Pakistan -- They inhabit a world of shabby, obscure respectability, meeting clients in mazes of open-air cubicles with old typewriters and frayed files, conferring in narrow alleys around crumbling courthouses and appearing in dim, chairless chambers whose hand-scrawled schedules are...

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• Pakistan's Sharif Files for Elections

  Published: November 27, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Pakistan S, Sharif, Files, For, Elections, Nawaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, Lahore, Pakistan, Pakistan Peoples Party, Punjab, Ashfaq Kiyani, Rashid Qureshi, Pakistan Muslim League, Washington Dc

  LAHORE, Pakistan, Nov. 26 -- Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who returned home triumphantly Sunday after seven years in exile, filed his candidacy papers for parliament here Monday but said he might boycott elections in January if the military government that overthrew him does not lift...

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• Musharraf Plans to Lift Emergency By Dec. 16

  Published: November 30, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Musharraf, Plans, Lift, Emergency, Dec, Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan, Farhatullah Babar, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Jamaat E Islami, Lahore, Pakistan Muslim League, Pakistan Peoples Party, Qazi Hussain Ahmad

  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 29 -- President Pervez Musharraf announced Thursday that he intended to lift emergency rule and restore the constitution by Dec. 16, saying he had fulfilled his promise to bring democracy to Pakistan and calling on political parties to participate in January elections.

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• Musharraf's Emergency Rule Abounding in Contradictions

  Published: December 3, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Musharraf S, Emergency, Rule, Abounding, Contradictions, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, Islamabad, Lahore, Nawaz Sharif, Asma Chohan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Munir Malik, Rawalpindi, Zia Ul Haq, Japan, The Taliban

  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The riot police fastened their helmets and raised their thick plastic shields, under orders to stop an exultant mob that was massing against a fence outside the Lahore airport last week. But as clusters of people began breaking through the fence, frantic to greet an arriving...

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• Pakistan Removes 37 Judges Who Don't Back Musharraf

  Published: December 5, 2007, 10:44 am

  Tags: Court, Justice, Lahore, Nove, Allegiance, Arrest, Attorney, Benazir, Bhutto, Called, Chaudhry, Effective, Emergency, Formally, Government, Iftikhar, Imposed, Including, Issuance, Judges, Malik, Ministers, Ministry, Muhammad, Musharraf, Nawaz, Notification, Politics

  Last week Musharraf stepped down as military leader in Pakistan to take over as president. Now 37 judges who refused to take an oath of allegiance to Musharraf have been removed from their positions."Pakistan's...read more

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• Caution Over a Defining Cause in Pakistan

  Published: February 21, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Caution, Over, Defining, Cause, Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, Pervez Musharraf, Nawaz Sharif, United States, Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, George W Bush, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, The Wall Street Journal, Benazir Bhutto, Awami National Party, Ghana, Pakistan Muslim League

  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 20 -- The head of Pakistan's new leading party said Wednesday that it is the job of the newly elected Parliament to decide whether to reinstate the country's embattled judiciary.

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• Hearing Offers Glimpse Into Bhutto Probe

  Published: March 2, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Hearing, Offers, Glimpse, Into, Bhutto, Probe, Benazir Bhutto, Sher Zaman, South Waziristan, Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud, Rawalpindi, The Taliban, The Associated Press, North West Frontier Province, Abdul Rashid, Aitazaz Shah, Akbar Jan, Chaudhry Abdul Majid, Dera Ismail Kha

  RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, March 1 -- Two men accused in the assassination of former prime minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto appeared in a special terrorism court here Saturday, offering a first glimpse into a government-led investigation shrouded in secrecy.

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• Pakistan Rivals Join to Fight Musharraf

  Published: March 10, 2008, 3:29 am

  Tags: Pakistan, Politics And Government, Zardari Asif Ali, Sharif Nawaz, Musharraf Pervez, Appointments And Executive Changes, Chaudhry Iftikhar Muhammad

  The leaders of the two major political parties agreed that they would reinstate the judges the Pakistani president fired, which may create a challenge to his presidency.

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