Source: BBC
Eight of the judges sacked last November by former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf have been reinstated.
They took their oaths at the governor’s house in Karachi. Reports say seven or eight more may be sworn in next week.
Mr Musharraf sacked some 60 judges, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, but some were restored later.
Former Prime Minister […]

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Source: BBC News (By Jill McGivering)
Nine soldiers have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the town of Kohat in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP), the military says.
Bomb attacks on the security forces have become a regular occurrence in the NWFP area.
The attack comes two days after President Pervez Musharraf lifted the state […]

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Source: The Times of India
ISLAMABAD: As the winter chill sets in across Pakistan, political parties are making a concerted pitch to come to power in next month’s general election despite fears expressed by several leaders that the polls would not be free and fair.
With a little over three weeks to go for the January 8 […]

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* EARLY LIFE:

– The second of three brothers, Musharraf was born into a middle class Muslim family in India in August 1943. His family moved to the newly created majority-Muslim state of Pakistan following India’s independence and partition in 1947.

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