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Since the terrorist attacks in Mumbai 10 days ago, speculation has been rife about the birthplace of the lone surviving gunman, Ajmal Amir Kasab. India and Pakistan have clashed over

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    June 17, 2008 | 0123 GMT   Speaking at a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday, U.S. President George W. Bush expressed support for Afghan President Hamid Karzai's June 15 remarks that Kabul would send forces into Pakistan to prevent the Taliban from using the South Asian country as a launchpad for attacks in Afghanistan. Karzai, who spoke after a

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By Zamir Sheikh: Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, the estranged senior PPP leader and vanguard of Pakistan's Lawyers Movement for the lost cause of restoration of judiciary has failed to see the master stroke played by his party Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari, who, emerged as a master tactician at the end of the lawyers march to Islamabad. The much trumpeted long march became a show of the right wing

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Details of the clashes that sparked the apparent air strike remain unclear Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has condemned an air strike by Afghanistan-based US forces that Islamabad says killed 11 of its troops. The incident took place inside Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan. The US military confirmed it had used artillery and air strikes after coming under fire from

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"Ahsan is almost recklessly outspoken about P.P.P. leaders, even thoughthey are his own political patrons. He speaks admiringly of Benazir Bhutto's courage and steadfastness but also points out with disdainthat she viewed herself as the P.P.P.'s "life chairperson." And hedoes not bother to conceal his dim view of Zardari. In the car, as we drove back through the night to Lahore, I asked him

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  SEX IN DEPTH In Pakistan, a dark trade comes to light By William Sparrow BANGKOK - Prostitution in the Islamic nation of Pakistan, once relegated to dark alleys and small red-light districts, is now seeping into many neighborhoods of country's urban

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By Robin WrightWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, May 16, 2008; A17Most ambassadors gain real influence only after years of working Washington's corridors of power -- and often only with the help of expensive lobbying firms. But Husain Haqqani, the ambassador-designate from Pakistan, already knows almost everyone who counts."He's one of the guys," said Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.),

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by Elliot Wilson Wednesday, 16th January 2008 Elliot Wilson says Pakistan's economy is dominated by a ruthless business conglomerate that owns everything from factories and bakeries to farmland and golf courses: the army Sometime in late 2004, Pakistan's all-powerful army made a curious decision. Under mounting pressure from London and Washington to capture Osama bin Laden, believed to be

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April 18, 2008 U.S. Lacks a Pakistan Plan, Report Finds By ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has failed to develop a government wide plan to combat terrorism in Pakistan's unruly tribal areas, even though top American officials concede that Al Qaeda has regenerated its ability to attack the United States and has established havens in that border region, government

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The New RepublicThe Pakistan Paradox by Dennis Ross President Musharraf and his U.S.-supported anti-terror policies have been roundly rejected by Pakistanis. How can U.S. diplomats get on the right side of history--and ramp up our assault on Al Qaeda? Post Date Thursday, April 03, 2008 On the day that Pakistan saw a new prime minister sworn into office, one of

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 11, 2008ALRC-STM-005-2008 A Joint Statement by the Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) , the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and the Lawyers Without Borders/Canada (LWB/C) PAKISTAN: Human rights groups denounce burning to death of up to 7 lawyers in Karachi and call for immediate action1 Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC)

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Legal implications of Gilani's movesBASEER NAVEEDGuest Commentary, UPI Asia Online [ http://www.upiasiaonline.com ] HONG KONG, China, April 2, 2008 The election of Yousaf Raza Gillani, who took office last week as prime minister of Pakistan, is a threat to the regime of President Pervez Musharraf, and even to his very existence. Gillani was loyal to the late Benazir Bhutto, the lifetime

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 Ground is shifting beneath diplomacy with Pakistan EPA IN ISLAMABAD: Makhdoom Amin Fahim, a leader of the Pakistan People's Party, left, and new Prime Minister Yusaf Raza Gillani attend a session of the National Assembly. By Laura King, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer March 31, 2008 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- Not so long ago, the Bush administration could take a one-stop approach to its

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Officials Fear Support From Islamabad Will Wane     By Robin Wright and Joby WarrickWashington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, March 26, 2008; 10:45 PM The United States has escalated its unilateral strikes against al-Qaeda members and fighters operating in Pakistan's tribal areas, partly because of anxieties that the country's new leaders will insist on a scaling back of military

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New Pakistani Leaders Tell Americans There's 'a New Sheriff in Town' Aamir Qureshi/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, left, and Yousaf Raza Gillani at Mr. Gillani's swearing-in as prime minister Tuesday. By JANE PERLEZ Published: March 26, 2008 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The top State Department officials responsible for the alliance with

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Poetry is a part of everyday life -- and a call to political action. Protesters invoke the masters and pen their own verse. By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer March 24, 2008 LAHORE, PAKISTAN -- Cut off from the world, even in parts of his own home, Aitzaz Ahsan did what many of his compatriots do in times

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The New York Review of BooksVolume 55, Number 5 · April 3, 2008 A New Deal in Pakistan By William Dalrymple The province of Sindh in southern Pakistan is a rural region of dusty mudbrick villages, of white-domed blue-tiled Sufi shrines, and of salty desert scrublands broken, quite suddenly, by floodplains of wonderful fecundity. These thin, fertile belts of green—cotton

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Article published Mar 19, 2008 Demonocracy, not democracy? March 19, 2008 By Arnaud de Borchgrave - Washington's Pakistan kibitzers will soon rue the day they squeezed President Pervez Musharraf to restore democracy. "Demonocracy" is what has now emerged, or an unholy alliance of long-time America-haters, including the MMA coalition of six politico-religious extremist parties that

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A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Historic resolution to restore the Constitution and all ousted judges is now before the National Assembly A few suggestions to remove ambiguities from the AHRC History is being made in the National Assembly of Pakistan. The Speaker was elected and the debates have already begun. True to the pledge given to the voters to restore the

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By Asif Ali Zardari Asif Ali Zardari says the Pakistan Peoples Party plans to work with fellow democratic parties for a new Pakistan. (CNN) -- Monday was a momentous day for the people of Pakistan, but a bittersweet day for me. Sitting in the gallery watching a democratically elected National Assembly headed by the Pakistan Peoples Party and its coalition partners, I thought of the

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Musharraf seeks deal to remain in powerBy Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad Published: March 13 2008 02:00 | Last updated: March 13 2008 02:00Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has offered to give up his powers to dissolve parliament if key opposition parties agree to drop their insistence on the re-instatement of Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, the former supreme court chief justice, the Financial

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of the slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, now sits at the pinnacle of Pakistani politics. It is a startling comeback for a man who, though never convicted here, spent 11 years in jail here on corruption and murder charges as one of Pakistan's most ostracized figures. The election victory last month of Ms. Bhutto's party, which he now

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Arab News, Editorial: Priorities 12 March 2008   Just a few days ago, it seemed that Pakistan was on course for political stability. With former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of the Pakistan People's Party, signing a formal agreement to join in a coalition, the prospect of a workable government took a major step forward. Within hours, however, hopes of an end to

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India's Survivors of Partition Begin to Break Long SilenceProjects Document Anguish of 1947 Split By Rama LakshmiWashington Post Foreign ServiceWednesday, March 12, 2008; A01 NEW DELHI -- Every year in March, Bir Bahadur Singh goes to the local Sikh shrine and narrates the grim events of the long night six decades ago when 26 women in his family offered their necks to the sword for the sake of

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Dear editor, I was disappointed to read your editorial dated 12 March 2008 ("Too limited a mandate") but I am tempted to respond as your paper has great respect and carries independent views. Your criticism refers to the narrow mandate, my meetings and a misquoted comment. The mandate that I have been entrusted by the United Nations is limited to the issue of freedom of religion or belief.

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By Henry A. KissingerThe Washington Post andTribune Media ServicesMarch 10, 2008 The elections in Pakistan, far from calming the political crisis, have opened a new phase of it, and the world has a huge stake in the outcome. Pakistan is at the front line of the assault by Islamist radicalism on moderate elements within the Muslim world and on the institutions of the West. But it is far

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This war on terrorism is bogus The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination  Michael Meacher  Saturday September 6 2003  The Guardian  Massive attention has now been given - and rightly so - to the reasons why Britain went to war against Iraq. But far too little attention has focused on why the US went to war, and that throws light on British

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Gulf News, The Nation (Pakistan), The Star (Bangladesh), Indian Express February 27, 2008 By Husain Haqqani The aftermath of Pakistan's February 18 parliamentary election has created hope of ending Pakistan's political dysfunction. The voters overwhelmingly rejected supporters of General (retired) Pervez Musharraf at the polls and the leaders of the country's major political parties

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Nasim Zehra One, the balance of power in Pakistan's power construct has greatly shifted towards elements that constitute Constitutional democracy. The elements include political legitimacy, popular vote, independent judiciary, constitutionally granted public and state authority, elected offices and independent media. The March 9 2007 lawyers and citizens resistance marked the beginning of this

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Published 21 February 2008 Confounding all predictions, the Pakistani people have clearly demonstrated that they want to choose their own rulers and decide their own future. There is a consensus from Lahore to Karachi It has not been a good year for Pakistan. President Musharraf's sacking of the chief justice last spring, the lawyers' protests that rumbled on throughout the summer and the

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The flawed boycott mantra? Thursday, February 21, 2008Raza RumiMuch has been said on how the election results are a referendum against the policies of General Musharraf. While there can be little disagreement with this, there is a clear lesson for Pakistan's urban intelligentsia that had been screaming about the futility of this election. True, Pakistan's troubled polity will not

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February 20, 2008   NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE   TAREK FATAH The Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080220.COPAK20/TPStory/?     Democracy is bringing a change in Pakistan that will have far-reaching consequences not just for its people, but for the rest of the world. The forces of the mullah-military alliance have been dealt a decisive blow. However, while

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February 20, 2008 By HELENE COOPER WASHINGTON — The Bush administration was scrambling Tuesday to pick up the pieces of its shattered Pakistan policy after the trouncing that the party of President Bush's ally, President Pervez Musharraf, received in parliamentary elections. The United States would still like to see Pakistan's opposition leaders find a way to work with Mr. Musharraf

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Hassan Abbas Guardian, February 19, 2008: http://www.guardian.co.uk The verdict is clear. Pakistan has shown the door to the mullahs and delivered a stern warning to Musharraf. Pakistan has backed the opposition to Musharraf's despotic handling of the judiciary, his high-handedness against independent media and his political cronyism. As a result, Musharraf's future looks bleak, while Pakistan

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February 16, 2008OP-ED CONTRIBUTORIn Pakistan, Islam Needs Democracy By WALEED ZIADIslamabad, PakistanWHILE it's good news that secular moderates are expected to dominatePakistan's parliamentary elections on Monday, nobody here thinks thevoting will spell the end of militant extremism. Democratic leaders have a poor track record in battling militants and offer no convincingremedies. Pakistan's

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 Analysis by Beena Sarwar       KARACHI, Feb 19 (IPS) - With unofficial results for Pakistan's general elections heralding Major upsets for President Pervez Musharraf's allies, the message was loud and clear: despite the pre-poll manipulations and irregularities voters have rejected the politics of hate and religious extremism. Though final results are yet to be announced, the Pakistan

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By: Amjad Malik   This is not gallop survey or western frenzy human right organisation's guess work, people of Pakistan in reality have given verdict and have shown serious dissent to the policies of general Musharraf and his way of governance, in particular to his treatment to top judiciary of Pakistan and his own handpicked Q league stalwarts have lost their own home seats which is a clear

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Elections under Musharraf 1999-2007   Microsoft Word File Attached   Long before Pervez Musharraf took power in a military coup in 1999, elections in Pakistan did not meet international standards for being "free and fair." Periods of military rule have meant that elections were not held regularly and their genuineness was often challenged. The secrecy of the ballot has not always been

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A Statement from the Human Rights Watch forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Attorney General Aware of 'Massive' Election-Rigging PlansAudio Recording Calls Into Question Government's Commitment to Fair Elections  (New York, February 15, 2008) – In an audio recording obtained by Human Rights Watch (http://hrw.org/audio/2008/urdu/pakistan0208.htm), Pakistan's Attorney General

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By Helga Ahmad WILL 500 years hence tourists be flocking towards the remains of the erstwhile capital of Pakistan, similar to the present massive influx in Fatehpur Sikri? This five-century old capital built by Akbar the Great was shifted 14 years after its inauguration as water resources were dwindling rapidly due to an ever-increasing population. Islamabad will soon celebrate 50 years of

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FREDERICK BARTON By Frederick Barton  |  February 12, 2008 AS PAKISTAN faces two near-term crises, parliamentary elections on Feb. 18 and increasing extremist violence, the United States has an opportunity to build a new and constructive relationship with the country. In the past, America has been reactive, driven by fear and uncertainty,

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IRI Pakistan Index Three Crises: Economic, Political and Security The most significant event since IRI's last poll was the assassination of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairperson and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Its impact on the political landscape has been significant, both as a setback to President Pervez Musharraf as well as a boost to her party's numbers.

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From the KHALEEJ TIMES BY DR MOEED PIRZADA 9 February 2008   THE internal power schisms of 'Pakistan People Party' are finally coming to the fore. This gives credence to the dark prophecies of all those pundits who had predicted, immediately after Benazir's assassination, that Pakistan's most popular political formation will find it difficult to survive as 'one' beyond the

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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AFP): A retired Pakistani General who opposesPresident Pervez Musharraf said he would "not be surprised" ifMusharraf had engineered terror attacks tomanipulate his image in the West.Former Lieutenant General Faiz Ali Chishti heads the influential PakistanEx-Servicemen Society, which last week issued a blunt open letter signed bymore than 100 senior officers calling on

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Supporters of Benazir Bhutto, the assassinated Pakistani opposition leader, gathered Saturday for an election rally in Thatta. oDel.icio.us oDigg oFacebook oNewsvine oPermalink By CARLOTTA GALL Published: February 10, 2008 THATTA, Pakistan — Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, opened her party's election campaign on Saturday with a huge rally

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As she sat there, she suddenly said to Akbar Khawaja, who had picked her up from the airport, "When I die, I want to be buried in Naudero. I don't want to be buried anywhere else. Someone might say, 'Let her lie in Nawabshah or Karachi', but that should never be"Benazir Bhutto had a premonition about death. Her sister Sanam has talked about the strange look she wore in the last days, a look it

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Who fired those other bullets? Nirupama Subramanian Some

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Op-Ed Contributor Drawn and Quartered By SELIG S. HARRISON Published: February 1, 2008    WHATEVER the outcome of the Pakistani elections, now scheduled for Feb. 18, the existing multiethnic Pakistani state is not likely to survive for long unless it is radically restructured. Given enough American pressure, a loosely united, confederated Pakistan could still be

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Delusion: a firm, fixed belief held with great conviction despite evidence to the contrary. Delusion is a symptom of psychosis- mental disorders in which a person loses contact with reality. In the last eight years of misrule this country has been subjected to, two pictures stand out for me. In August 1999 soon after the Nawaz Sharif government was overthrown, Brig. Rashid Qureishi, the

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By DAPHNE BARAK - Last updated at 09:29am on 30th December 2007   TV journalist Daphne Barak has befriended many of the world leaders she has interviewed - from Nelson Mandela to Shimon Peres - but none became such a close friend as Benazir Bhutto. Here she reveals the private world of the murdered former Pakistan prime minister.   "Daphne, you don't want me to go back home?" asked Benazir

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A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Under no circumstances should the elections due to February 18 be postponed The reports coming out of Pakistan state that a group of 100 ex-military personnel including former generals, admirals, air marshals and other retired officers are calling for the resignation of President Musharraf with immediate effect. These former senior

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"The first thing I want to do is to release all political prisoners," she announced as our meeting on November 30, 1988 began at Dr Zafar Niazi's house in Islamabad. In the elections held after the death of General Zia-ul Haq, the PPP, despite all efforts of the agencies, had succeeded in the elections. After failing to prop up any rival, then-President Ghulam Ishaq had finally agreed that very

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http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=6737 U.S. Covert Action in Waziristan (Part I)   By Akbar Ahmed | Wednesday, January 23, 2008     The global spotlight is on Waziristan. Osama bin Laden is said to be there, as well as a new generation of Al Qaeda leaders. Worried about the destabilizing effect of Al Qaeda, the U.S. government wants the CIA to conduct more aggressive

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Militant 'Did Not Murder Bhutto'By Syed Shoaib Hasan(BBC News) - A Pakistani Senator says [Pakistani-Pashtoon] leaderBaitullah Mehsud was not involved in the murder of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.Islamabad and Washington have both [illegally and fraudulently] blamedMr. Mehsud - who is based in the troubled region of South Waziristan[Pakistan] - for the assassination of Ms. Bhutto. But [

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The Honourable Ban Ki MoonSecretary-General of the United NationsUnited Nations HeadquartersFirst Avenue at 46th StreetNew York 1007, U.S.A.Subject: Request for the formation of a United Nations international Investigation Commission into the Assassination of Ms Benazir Bhutto to be known as the "Ms. Benazir Bhutto Inquiry Commission" On 27th December, 2007 Ms Bhutto was assassinated in

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- British Scotland Yard Should Quit Flawed Bhutto Inquiry in Pakistan- Independent International Investigation Needed to Conduct CredibleProbeHRF: http://www.JusticeForum.infoNew York, NY, USA (InformPress.com) - The UK's Scotland Yard shouldnot be part of a flawed Pakistani investigation into the assassinationof former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today

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From the NEWSWEEK Updated: 12:37 PM ET Jan 12, 2008 Democracy suffered a string of setbacks in 2007, many thanks to oil. Gushing oil revenues helped Vladimir Putin consolidate authoritarian rule in Russia, Hugo Chávez expand populism in Venezuela and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confront the West. All the while, an analogous force was at work in Pakistan. For more than 50 years, Pakistan has reaped

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By I.A. Rehman THE Frontier government's draft regulation for a switchover to the system of quasi-religious courts in Swat, Dir and Chitral districts amounts to playing with fire. Planned apparently to appease militancy in the area it is likely to make the militants there stronger and facilitate their rise in other parts of the province and in the rest of Pakistan. To a considerable extent the

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Full Text of PPP Co-Chairman's Letter to UN Secretary General Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto's AssassinationPakistan Peoples Party's Co-ChairmanSenator Asif Ali Zardari writes to the UN Secretary General Copies also sent to five permanent members of SC The Co-Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party, Senator Asif Ali Zardari has formally urged the United Nations to set up a UN International Commission to

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Monday, January 14, 2008                                                  Shakir Husain                                                                                                                                          Since about Oct 12, 2007, the news in the country and internationally       hasn't really allowed us to pay homage to a great patriot who gave us NINE years of his life and

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By Selig S Harrison Serious troubles have erupted in the Pakistan province of Baluchistan since the assassination of an opposition leader in August. Pressure for independence is growing in this region bordering Iran and Afghanistan, which challenges Pakistan's authority. THE slow-motion genocide being inflicted on Baluch tribesmen in the mountains and deserts of southwestern Pakistan

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- CIA Places Blame For Bhutto Assassination- Hayden Cites Musharraf Mafia, Pakistani PMLQ-MQMBy Warrick Joby(The CIA Post Washington) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has concluded that members of Musharraf Mafia, PML-Q extremists andMQM militants, the allies of Pakistani criminal tyrant PervezMusharraf, were responsible for last month's assassination of formerPakistani Prime Minister

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Next-Gen Taliban Sarah Caron for The New York Times A guardsman protects his village in the North-West Frontier Province, near the Afghanistan border. Clashes with the Taliban have become increasingly frequent. By NICHOLAS SCHMIDLE Published: January 6, 2008 One day last month, I climbed onto a crowded rooftop in Quetta, near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan,

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January, 14 2008By Tariq Ali Source: The Nation Tariq Ali's ZSpace Page Join ZSpace (11 January 2008) With Pervez Musharraf trying to cling to power whatever the cost, a farcical succession within the Pakistan People's Party, and continued US interference, Pakistan's dark night is far from

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  Jan 16, 2008 By Scott Ritter The assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has prompted much instant analysis and Monday morning quarterbacking by observers of that volatile region.  Early assessments agree that public sentiment in Pakistan has turned decisively against both President Pervez Musharraf and the Islamic parties that oppose him (

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by Barnett R. RubinI had a few conversations that led me to the following thoughts about the Serena bombing:Whatever happens next, this is a major decision point for everyone concerned in Afghanistan. Such operations will continue. Even if the vast majority do not succeed, the result will be a mix of the following: Many if not most of the civilian foreign

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11.01.2008 John Berlin Why the US Wants the Collapse of Pakistan The death of Ms Bhutto, who would certainly have become Pakistan's new Prime minister, throws Pakistan into deeper chaos. It even brings the prospect of the possible collapse of Pakistan as a national state within our horizon. Whereas the Taliban, al-Qa'ida and ISI (Pakistan's intelligence service) all had a significant interest

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Cultural encyclopaedia to preserve heritage * Includes more than 200 pictures * Research on culture and history of provinces underwayISLAMABAD: The Lok Virsa is working on the series of cultural encyclopaedia on all the four provinces to preserve the heritage of Pakistan.The National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage has completed research work on NWFP and it would be launched soon, an

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    Military slew Bhutto   By CLAUDE SALHANI Editor WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on orders of lower- and middle-level officers of the Pakistani army and air force, according to various intelligence sources, including members of India's counterintelligence service. According to a source who asked to remain unnamed, members of the Pakistani armed forces involved

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January 15, 2008Militants Escape Control of Pakistan, Officials Say By  CARLOTTA GALL and  DAVID ROHDE ISLAMABAD,  Pakistan — Pakistan's premier military intelligence agency has lost control of some of the networks of Pakistani militants it has nurtured since the 1980s, and is now suffering the violent blowback of that policy, two former senior intelligence officials and other officials

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BY SHEKHAR GUPTA (India Interest)9 January 2008PAKISTANIS surely coin more colourful political slogan than us. Theyare also less subtle. So, the next time you see visuals of a PPP protest rally on your TV screens following Benazir's assassination,strain your ears a bit to catch a most telling slogan: Amreeka nekutta paala, vardi waala, vardi waala.It would lose much flavour in transliteration,

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Indian Express, January 10, 2008Hope is a memory of BenazirBeena SarwarThe assassination of Benazir Bhutto has left a huge vacuum inPakistani politics at a juncture where her presence was vital to thetransition towards democracy. The widespread riots following herdeath provided the government with a pretext to postpone theelections, initially scheduled for January 8. The rioters damagedsome

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In another desperate measure the government has banned access to blogs (particularly blogspot/wordpress) from Pakistan. Don't worry. They can't stop us.Sites you can use to access banned blogs: 1) www.pkblogs.comSo for instance you want to access The Emergency Times, type http://www.pkblogs.com/pakistanmartiallaw 2) Free Online Anonymizers such as http://www.siatec.net/proxyanonymizer/

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   excerpts from the interview of Munir Malik, the former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, who galvanised the lawyers' protests and who was imprisoned and almost died from being  administered mysterious drugs to cause renal failure and liver damage. . . . .   Excerpts from The MUNIR MALIK Interview This interview was conducted by Baber Ayaz on behalf of Asian Human Rights

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By Maruf Khwaja Created 2008-01-09 15:48 "Nobody can go until their time is up", said Benazir Bhutto to an Indian television channel in the traumatic aftermath of the first attempt on her life on 18 October 2007 [1]. It's a truism that is found in other cultures, but as an Islamic dictum it seems to gain conviction on repetition. Since the leader of

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  Andy Martin on "Who killed Benazir Bhutto?" Andy Martin analyzes the murder of Benazir Bhutto, and blames Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf for her killing. Martin says U. S. foreign policy is in a shambles in Pakistan, and we face a menu of unpalatable options as Pakistan descends into chaos. Martin says U. S. foreign policy is in a shambles in Pakistan, and we face a menu of

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The Destabilization of Pakistan By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, December 30, 2007 The assassination of Benazir Bhutto has created conditions which contribute to the ongoing destabilization and fragmentation of Pakistan as a Nation.  The process of US sponsored "regime change", which

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 By Qazi Faez Isa "CAUSING any evidence of the commission of that offence to disappear with the intention of screening the offender" in a murder case is punishable by seven years' imprisonment and fine (Section 201, Pakistan Penal Code). "The most important aspect of evidence collection and preservation is protecting the crime scene. This is to keep the pertinent evidence uncontaminated until it

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Pakistanis want Islamic democracy, distrust US: poll   WASHINGTON (January 08 2008): Most Pakistanis want their country to be a democratic Islamic state but are deeply distrustful of the United States and its war on terrorism, according to a poll released on Sunday. Funded by the US Institute of Peace, or USIP, the poll was taken before President Pervez Musharraf's six-week state of emergency

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  January 6, 2008 The World Ghosts That Haunt Pakistan By JOHN F. BURNS CAMBRIDGE , England   WHEN Benazir Bhutto was assassinated, the killers struck in Rawalpindi, an ancient garrison town, on the e dge of a leafy park named for another Pakistani who had served as prime minister, Liaquat Ali Khan; he was assassinated in the park in 1951. Barely a mile away, Ms. Bhutto's father, Zulfikar

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LONDON: Pakistan is a very important country, perhaps the most important of all in what American and British politicians call "the war on terror". Does this explain the enormous coverage given, in all sections of the British press, to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto? I don't think so. Nobody would have lingered long over the story if Bhutto's rival in the Pakistan elections, Nawaz

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January 7, 2008 In Musharraf's Shadow, a New Hope for Pakistan Rises By DAVID ROHDE and CARLOTTA GALL, New York Times   ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Over the last several months, a little-known, enigmatic Pakistani general has quietly raised hopes among American officials that he could emerge as a new force for stability in Pakistan, according to current and former government officials. But it

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01/07/2008 @ 9:36 am Filed by Larisa Alexandrovna   Suicide bomber may have been inserted to eliminate evidence      The assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Dec. 27, 2007 has created concerns for US intelligence officials, who see US policy toward Pakistan as being held hostage by President Pervez Musharraf and factions of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

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  Manufacturing 'truths'  By Hajrah Mumtaz "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is

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December 23, 2007, NEW YORK TIMES Op-Ed Contributor Pakistan's Tyranny Continues By AITZAZ AHSAN Lahore, Pakistan THE chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, and his family have been detained in their house, barricaded in with barbed wire and surrounded by police officers in riot gear since Nov. 3. Phone lines have been cut and jammers have been installed all

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By Imtiaz AlamDozens of smaller parties in the All Parties' Democratic Movement (APDM) -- which have been more enthusiastic about boycotting elections since they have nothing to lose -- have been isolated after former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif and his PML-N decided to participate and not to let the electoral field open to their rival league of defectors (PML-Q). The APDM, despite reaching

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ONE would like to view the opening last week of yet another art gallery in Islamabad, the fourth this year in the capital, as a reflection of the fast changing character of a city that was once known as a cultural desert. This new gallery may not have the kind of impact which the public National Art Gallery made when it was inaugurated in August, some three decades after the project was first

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  Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry declared Lawyer of the Year       LAWYER OF THE YEAR | IFTIKHAR MUHAMMAD CHAUDHRY Pakistan's chief protester Rex Bossert / Editor-in-ChiefDecember 17, 2007   Iftikhar Muhammad ChaudhryIllustration: Joseph Adolph Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is not exactly a household name to the legal profession in the United

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Former premier says she was worried about the baby getting dropped or hurt * Considers herself lucky to have ZardariBy Khalid HasanWASHINGTON: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has said that the bomb attack on her homecoming procession was carried out by a man who was holding up a baby who was rigged up with explosives and whom he wanted her to hold.Had she just at that moment not bent to

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From today's DAWN Difficult questions by BB....     Pakistan made seedbed of terrorism: Benazir LONDON, Aug 23: The West's support for General Pervez Musharraf had made Pakistan a "seedbed" of terrorism, writes former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in The Guardian issue of Wednesday.She asks: "Why is it that the terrorist trail always seems to lead back to Pakistan?" "Why are second-generation

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From the Daily Times, Pakistan - Thursday, August 24, 2006 EDITORIAL: Ban on wedding meals and other bad laws One bad law — ban on wedding meals — the citizens of Pakistan have tacitly resisted since its enforcement in 1997 has been amended by parliament with near unanimity. It was a bad law, as described in legal parlance, because it was steadily violated by the society on which it

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Tuesday, August 22, 2006   BB saved Aziz from money laundering case: Babar NEW YORK: Major General (r) Naseerullah Babar has claimed that when he was interior minister he had issued orders to arrest Shaukat Aziz in a money laundering case, but then prime minister Benazir Bhutto stopped him. "When Shaukat Aziz was working with Citibank, he was involved in a money laundering case. After

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