Source: BBC News

Mr Negroponte urged Gen Musharraf to quit his army post swiftly
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Source: Dawn News
 ISLAMABAD, Nov 17 (APP): Pakistan Saturday denied a BBC report that claimed President Pervez Musharraf had told the network in an interview that the country’s nuclear weapons could fall into wrong hands. In the interview the President had stated that these weapons could not fall into wrong hands, the Foreign Office spokesman said […]

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Source: Dawn News
ISLAMABAD, Nov 17 (AFP) - Pakistan’s supreme court will resume hearings on the legality of President Pervez Musharraf’s re-election from Monday in a case that will decide when Musharraf quits as army chief, attorney general Malik Mohammad Qayyum said Saturday. The verdict is crucial because Musharraf has vowed that he will step […]

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Some opposition supporters did not welcome Mr Negroponte’s visit

A senior US envoy has met President Pervez Musharraf to discuss Pakistan’s deepening political crisis. Diplomats said John Negroponte had delivered a very strong message for an end to Pakistan’s state of emergency.
Ahead of the meeting, […]

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President Musharraf has appointed Mohammadmian Soomro as PM

Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf has hit out at opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and dismissed her hopes of coming to power in elections. He said Ms Bhutto in fact feared the polls, set for January, because her party was unpopular and […]

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Source: Geo News
KARACHI: The journalists including employees Geo TV Network marched […]

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ISLAMABAD: GEO TV, Pakistan’s premier Urdu news channel, also seen round the world […]

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Source: CNN News
LAHORE, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf swore seven of his allies into a caretaker government on Friday, despite a pledge to include “people of a neutral band.”

“An old cabinet is gone and a new cabinet — a caretaker government — has been sworn in,” Musharraf said to applause.
“Life continues, […]

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S0urce: Time World News
Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007 By MASSIMO CALABRESI/WASHINGTON

A little over a year ago President George W. Bush leaned across his podium at a White House press conference and told Pervez Musharraf he was “a strong defender of freedom and the people of Pakistan.” Now he’s sending […]

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Bhutto now says she is unwilling to share power with Gen Musharraf

Benazir Bhutto has been released from house arrest in Pakistan, reports say. The opposition leader was placed under a seven-day detention order on Tuesday in Lahore, where she had been planning a mass protest march. […]

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Source: Geo News
LAHORE: Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said Thursday that Pervez Musharraf would be unacceptable as president even if he shed his army uniform.
In comments that appeared to cement her break with Musharraf following his imposition of emergency rule, she said too many promises had been broken for her to work with him.
The military […]

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Source: Geo News
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Senate Mohammedmian Soomro will be made the caretaker premier, the sources said on Thursday.
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz paid a farewell visit to President General Pervez Musharraf at the Presidential House here.
On this occasion, the president paid a rich tribute to the premier on his services for the economic growth of the […]

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Source: Geo News
RAWALPINDI: President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said that he expects to quit as chief of Pakistan’s army by the end of November, heralding a return to civilian.
He told an American news channel that he is quite clear about public aspirations and said the common people are satisfied with his efforts to head off turmoil […]

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Source: Geo News
LAHORE: Urging the Bush Administration to facilitate an “exit strategy” for President Pervez Musharraf, former Pakistan Premier Benazir Bhutto has warned that if the General remained in power that would mean the takeover of her country by the al-Qaeda and Taliban.
” I can tell you that if General Musharraf stays, al- Qaeda or […]

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Source: Dawn News
LAHORE, Nov 15 (AFP): Pakistan cricket legend Imran Khan was moved overnight to Kot Lakhpat jail, Lahore’s biggest prison early Thursday after being charged under anti-terror laws, officials said. Lahore police chief Malik Mohammad Iqbal told AFP Imran Khan was charged late Wednesday and moved overnight to Kot Lakhpat jail.

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Source: BBC News

President Musharraf has said he is committed to holding elections

Pakistan’s revamped Supreme Court is due to begin hearing a legal challenge to the state of emergency. President Pervez Musharraf’s lawyers will say the emergency is the only way to ensure free and fair elections.
But Gen […]

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Source: Geo News 
KARACHI: President General Pervez Musharraf aid Wednesday that the induction of authentic and impartial persons would be ensured in the interim setup.Talking to an international news agency at the Presidential House here, he said the West and media played dishonestly with him.

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Imran Khan has been arrested at Punjab University. He has been manhandled by students, and has been handed over to the police. The Islami-Jameet-e-Tuleeba (IJT) has played a major hand in his arrest. According to reports, it may have been the plains cloth cops and intelligence officials who might have posed as students during the […]

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Imran Khan has arrived at the Punjab University to join the students in their protest, and it is expected that he will hand himself over to the authorities. Some students from the Punjab University have protested against politicians joining in. It is unclear what the exact situation on the ground is. The reports coming in […]

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Students have started their rally at the Punjab University. In an attempt to stop the Punjab University rally, all routes leading to the university have been blocked off by the police. Imran Khan, the leader of PTI, was supposed to hand himself over to the authorities at the protest. Till now, there are no reports […]

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Source: Aaj TV News
ISLAMABAD (2007-11-13 14:17:48) :
Interior Ministry of Pakistan said on Tuesday denied reports it was planning to forcibly remove opposition leader and PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto from house arrest in Lahore and fly her back to her home city.
“There is no truth in the reports that Benazir Bhutto is being shifted to Karachi […]

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Source: Aaj TV News
LAHORE (2007-11-13 15:16:36) :
PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto wants to build an alliance with other political leaders including PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif, her party quoted her as saying on Tuesday.
“I would like to consult with all of them, including Nawaz Sharif,” Ms. Bhutto told reporters by telephone, according to a Pakistan People’s Party […]

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Source: BBC News

Several of Ms Bhutto’s supporters were taken away by police

Pakistan’s detained opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has called for President Pervez Musharraf to step down. Ms Bhutto made the call after police mounted a massive security operation to prevent a protest march in Lahore, where she is […]

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Source: BBC News
Readers in Pakistan describe what life is like under emergency rule and what they think should be done to end the current crisis.
WAQAS M KHATTAK, 22, STUDENT, ISLAMABAD

Waqas thinks that […]

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