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Ingrid Betancourt WOMAN OF THE YEAR 2008 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
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Pakistan restores 3 judges ousted by Musharraf (The Charlotte Observer)
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday reinstated three judges ousted by Pervez Musharraf, cementing political divisions in the country a day before it elects a new president. Musharraf's purge of the court last year deepened his unpopularity and helped his political foes to a victory in February elections. Musharraf resigned under pressure last month. However, the second-largest party then quit the ...
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Pakistani leader safe after snipers target car (The Charlotte Observer)
Snipers fired on the motorcade for Pakistan's prime minister on Wednesday as it drove to the airport to pick him up, striking his car window at least twice, officials said. Neither the prime minister nor his staff were in the vehicles. The assassination attempt comes as Pakistan's new civilian government - under pressure from American officials - is cracking down on Islamist militants after ...
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Nuclear India at the Crossroads (Arms Control Association)
Five years after first publicly testing nuclear weapons, India stands at a critical point in its strategic path. It faces today a crucial choice between maintaining a minimal deterrent and expanding its arsenal so as to sustain a Cold War-style posture toward its nuclear adversaries.
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Zainab Chughtai: The welfare of ordinary Pakistanis has dropped off the agenda (Guardian Unlimited)
Zainab Chughtai: As Pakistan's political leaders wrangle over the small print, the welfare of the country's people has dropped off the agenda
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Lawyers stage sit-ins across country (Dawn)
ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: Lawyers staged two-hour sit-ins across the country on Thursday, turning their guns on PPP Co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari for not honouring written agreements on the restoration of deposed judges.
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Pakistani lawyers launch protest for restoration of judges (EARTHtimes.org)
Islamabad - Pakistani lawyers, backed by human rights activists and political workers, staged countrywide sit-ins Thursday to press the government to reinstate dozens of senior judges sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf. The powerful legal co...
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Pakistan's ruling coalition implodes (The News & Observer)
With Musharraf out of the picture, his opponents find little common ground.
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Advertisement starts (Tiscali)
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The widower of assassinated former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto will be a candidate for president, an official of his party said on Saturday.
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Post-Musharraf Pakistan: Searching for stability after the chaos (San Francisco Chronicle)
In a way, a discouraging-sounding headline in the Hindu says it all; referring to the news that Nawaz Sharif, a former Pakistani prime minister who heads the Pakistan Muslim League (N) had pulled...
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