Source : The star online
By BUNN NAGARA
Pakistan’s legal community is in a fighting mood, launching this week its “long march” to oust President Pervez Musharraf.
China’s “long march” in the 1930s was a series of retreats from an advancing Kuomintang army. Then 1960s leftist radicals in the West launched a “long march through the institutions” by […]

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Source:The Guardian
Simon Tisdall
Pakistan’s new leaders are doing the easy stuff first. Judges fired by President Pervez Musharraf, including the former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, will probably get their jobs back soon. Curbs on the media are being lifted. Earlier this week the supreme court cleared the way for the late Benazir Bhutto’s husband, Asif […]

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Source: Reuters
BEIJING  - Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is pushing a proposal for gas and oil pipelines between his country and China to bolster bilateral ties, he said on Monday, during a visit that has highlighted security concerns.
Beijing has stood close to Musharraf, who came to power as a general in a coup in 1999, even […]

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Source: Thaindian News
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has criticised Pakistan for not doing enough to curb terrorism and has told President Pervez Musharraf to lift his game. Rudd told Musharraf that he needs to do more to stem the flow of arms and support to the Taliban in remote areas of Pakistan, reports the Australian […]

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Source: Reuters
Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf swore in ministers on Monday for a coalition government that could try to force his resignation.
Here are short profiles of leading members of the cabinet;
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani
– Gilani, 55, hails from a prominent family from southern Punjab and entered politics in the 1980s in support of the then […]

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Source: AFX News
KARACHI  - Pakistan shares hit an all-time high on Thursday on strong foreign investor buying after President Pervez Musharraf’s allies suffered a crushing electoral defeat.
The benchmark Karachi Stock Exchange index of 100 shares rose around 1 percent or 142 points to close at 14,972 points, a new all-time high, on the back of […]

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Source: Associated Press
By PAMELA HESS
WASHINGTON - The top two U.S. intelligence officials made a secret visit to Pakistan in early January to seek permission from President Pervez Musharraf for greater involvement of American forces in trying to ferret out al-Qaida and other militant groups active in the tribal regions along the Afghanistan border, a senior […]

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