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73 articles tagged "Pakistan"
DEBKAfile
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November 10, 2007, 12:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
Monday, two days after Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency, police used tear gas and batons to break up a protest of 2,000 lawyers in Lahore High Court, arresting 350. But thousands of Muslim extremists were allowed to demonstrate undisturbed. Sunday, pro-Taliban radicals in South Waziristan handed ...
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November 9, 2007, 6:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
The announcement Thursday, Nov. 15, followed Musharraf's telephone conversation with President Bush amid opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's plans for public protest against the state of emergency he imposed Saturday.
debkafile: Bhutto has not been detained or even placed under house arrest, unlike fellow opposition leader Imran Khan who ...
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November 7, 2007, 5:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto flies to Islamabad, says no talks with Musharraf planned
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November 7, 2007, 10:56 AM (GMT+02:00)
Monday, President Bush urged President Pervez Musharraf to restore democracy as quickly as possible and give up his military post.
Hundreds of Pakistani lawyers led protests against President Pervez Musharraf's emergency regime Tuesday for the second day. Three were injured in clashes with the police. An estimated 1,400 lawyers and ...
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November 5, 2007, 10:51 AM (GMT+02:00)
Later, armed men surrounded the scene, 20 km from the Afghan border, and carried away the dead and wounded. debkafile reports that al Qaeda makes it a rule to evacuate the dead and wounded so as not to disclose their identities, especially when a prominent operative is hit. ...
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November 5, 2007, 10:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
In media interviews from her home in Karachi, opposition leader ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto called for the suspended constitution to be restored and elections held under supervision. The government was reported Sunday to be planning to postpone the parliamentary poll from January. Unlike Bhutto, Javed Hashmi, acting head of exiled ...
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November 4, 2007, 1:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
Law enforcement agencies are all demoralized. Terrorism and radicalism in Pakistan is at an extreme level. Extremists are roaming all over Pakistan.
Pakistan was a failed state in 1999. "We thought we could head for full democracy by free elections, but the system of government was paralyzed by judicial interference," ... 
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October 21, 2007, 11:20 AM (GMT+02:00)
President Musharraf promised an independent probe into the attempted assassination of Bhutto Thursday, Oct. 18, the day of her return from an eight-year exile.
The explosions occurred as Bhutto paraded through crowded Karachi streets in an armored, bullet-proof bus at the head of a convoy. She was unharmed in the ...
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October 5, 2007, 3:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
They were found after Taliban spokesman threatened to start killing three soldiers a day of the 300 kidnapped in nearby South Waziristan on Aug. 30 - unless the Kabul government released 30 prisonerst.
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October 3, 2007, 8:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Pakistan's High Court ruling Friday that his candidacy is lawful even while he is commander of the army triggered a spate of violent protests. The protesting parliamentarians belong mainly to an alliance of Islamic parties. The country's biggest party, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, ...
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September 24, 2007, 7:58 AM (GMT+02:00)
He will head the Inter-Services Intelligence agency ahead of president Pervez Musharraf's retirement as army chief in order to keep hold of the presidency in the coming election.
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March 5, 2006, 2:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
Every effort was made to end President George W. Bush's visit to Pakistan on a high note Saturday, March 4, despite the massive security blanket marring the event. Bush and his host, president Pervez Musharraf, were lavish in their praise of the strong strategic cooperation between them in the war ...
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June 11, 2005, 6:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
The biggest refugee repatriation operation in the world is underway. It is the cover for Pakistan's mass-export of al Qaeda operatives back to where they came from - Afghanistan. The UN refugee agency reports that from 2002, nearly 2.4 million Afghan refugees returned home from Pakistan. This week, General Pervez ...
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