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Pakistan: on the Perilous Path to Democracy

Shuja Nawaz | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Asif Ali Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Democracy, Afghanistan, Fata, Pakistan, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Politics News

The fledgling coalition government in Pakistan has a huge task before it: restoring democracy, the judiciary, and the economy. It will need to reach clear and unambiguous agreements amongst itself.

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Pakistan Opposition to Form Government

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan Elections, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan Opposition, Pakistan Judges, Politics News

BHURBAN, Pakistan — Pakistan's election winners sealed an agreement Sunday to form a coalition government and said parliament would restore judg...

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Who Will Be Calling the Shots in Pakistan?

Shuja Nawaz | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nawaz Sharif, Army, Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan, Kayani, Pakistani Elections, Asif Ali Zardari, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan Democracy, Politics News

How quickly Kayani makes his new appointments and consolidates his own position in command of the army will indicate the shift of power from Musharraf to the army chief. His window of opportunity is narrow.

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US Urges Pakistan To Keep Musharraf Despite Massive Election Defeat

McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics

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The Bush administration is pressing the opposition leaders who defeated Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to allow the former general to retain his...

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Musharraf Rejects Calls For Him To Resign

AFP | Danny Kemp | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ppi Party, Pakistan Opposition, Pakistan Muslim League, Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan, Pakistan Election, Breaking Politics News, Nawaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan Elections, Politics News

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf rejected calls to resign as opposition parties on Wednesday mulled a coalition government that could force the ke...

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Opposition Calls On Musharraf To Resign After Crushing Election Defeat

London Times | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nawaz Sharif, Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan, Pakistan Opposition, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan Muslim League, Ppi Party, Pakistan Elections, Politics News

President Pervez Musharraf's leading opponents urged him to resign today as they jockeyed for position in a new coalition government after winning par...

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Questions That Need an Answer in Pakistan

Shuja Nawaz | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bilawal Bhutto PPP, Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan India, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority, PEMRA, Pervez Musharraf, Nawaz Sharif, Warrant of Precedence, Sharia, Pakistan Military, Pakistan Elections, Kashmir, Politics News

Before Pakistanis go to the vote on February 18, they deserve answers to some questions from their political leaders, the high command of the army, and the United States government.

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Will We Ever Know Who Killed Benazir Bhutto?

Shuja Nawaz | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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History indicates that Pakistan's governments have evaded or mishandled the search for truth in all major terrorist attacks and subsequent deaths, including those of heads of government and state and the Pakistan army.

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The Martyrdom of Benazir Bhutto

Parvez Sharma | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

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The blood of a martyr is the best solution for the stains of corruption and misgoverning in the part of the world where I come from. Bhutto is assured a greater greatness in death.

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An End to a Beginning

Ellaha Shaheen | Posted 12.29.2007 | Politics

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Pakistan's internal instability is not only unfavorable to the country, but also critical to the neighboring country Afghanistan. One of the direct effects of Pakistan's internal instability will be sensed in Afghanistan.

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On the Pakistani Elections

Husain Haqqani | Posted 12.10.2007 | Home

Read More: Nawaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Musharraf, Pakistan, Home News

Musharraf's guns are trained on Bhutto and Sharif for a reason: the two are visible reminders that Pakistan can be ruled by someone other than Musharraf.

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Pakistan's Prague Spring Might Remain Just a Memory

Shuja Nawaz | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics

Read More: Pakistan Uprising, Pakistan, Pakistani Elections, International Republican Institute, Velvet Revolution, Pakistan Democracy, Pakistan Judges, National Democratic Institute, Pakistan Opposition, Pakistan Muslim League, Pakistan Crisis, Tom Daschle, Marina Ottaway, Doctrine of Necessity, Nawaz Sharif, Bhutto Pakistan, Aitzaz Ahsan, Pakistan Lawyers Jailed, Pakistan Suspended Constitution, John Cushnahan, Shahbaz Sharif, Prague, Nawaz, Politics News

The paradox behind the West's tacit support of the current situation in Pakistan is that it militates against the very forces of moderation that might keep Pakistan from the hands of the extremists.

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Playing Roulette in Pakistan

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.29.2007 | Politics

Read More: Benazir Bhutto, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Pakistan Crisis, Pakistani Elections, Nawaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf, Bhutto Pakistan, Bhutto Musharraf Pakistan, Politics News

The U.S. is hoping to throw the deeply corrupt but Westernized Benazir Bhutto into the mix out of fear that Sharif is soft on Muslim fanatics in his own country as well as on the Taliban.

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Pakistani Politics: Simmering but Confused Discontent

Shuja Nawaz | Posted 11.28.2007 | Politics

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Should Bhutto and Sharif contest the elections and risk a hung parliament, or boycott them, depriving Musharraf of the legitimacy that he seeks for his own election?

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Judges Get a Heroes' Reception

Medea Benjamin | Posted 11.27.2007 | Politics

Read More: Karachi, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan Judges, Nawaz Sharif, Musharaff and Pakistan State of Emergency, Benazir Bhutto, Sarmad Jalal Osmany, Provisional Constitutional Order, Politics News

The heroes in today's Pakistan are not the returning former prime ministers, but the judges who refused to accept Musharraf's emergency law putting the Constitution in abeyance.

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Exiled Musharraf Rival Returns To Pakistan To A 'Hero's Welcome'

AP | SLOBODAN LEKI | Posted 11.25.2007 | Politics

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Exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returned home to a hero's welcome Sunday and called on President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to end emergency rule...

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Musharraf's "Leap Into the Dark" May Be Just That

Shuja Nawaz | Posted 11.21.2007 | Politics

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The January elections Musharraf promised will be flawed and unrepresentative, and the media will not be allowed to report freely on events around them.

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Pakistan on the Brink

Jeff Coryell | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: Nawaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan, Politics News

Students and lawyers are protesting around Pakistan, wearing black armbands and carrying black flags, and in one intriguing photograph carrying signs with the familiar "eject" icon.

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