Word: alie
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...opposition politicians continue to stagger toward a head-on collision. As Washington and its allies watch with mounting anxiety, the government has broadened its crackdown, requisitioning troops and silencing a leading TV news channel. A senior government minister has resigned in protest over the media clampdown, but President Asif Ali Zardari appears unwilling to negotiate under pressure. And his chief rival, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, is pressing ahead with preparations for a lawyer-led protest march due to arrive in the capital of Islamabad on Monday...
...theater scene at Harvard will become more cohesive,” Stone says, “and there will be more occasions for students to have experiences in the professional theater like this.”In other words, let the sun shine in.—Staff writer Ali R. Leskowitz can be reached at aleskow@fas.harvard.edu...
...need the true freedom, which we haven't got, but I know it's coming," said Ali Obeid, who last saw his son while the young man was down on his knees in the custody of police. The body of Obeid's son later turned up at the morgue. "We are not in a hurry, but it will come. There is no way we can allow the police to be killing youths anytime they want...
...argument has won little favor with human-rights groups. "In our view, Section 144 is a draconian colonial-era law that flies against the most basic principles of freedom of assembly," said Ali Dayan Hasan of Human Rights Watch. "We have repeatedly called for it to be abolished. Any use of the law is by its nature oppressive. Last year the government won plaudits for allowing the same march by lawyers to proceed to Islamabad. It is disappointing that the Pakistani government feels the need to revert to an authoritarian tradition that is best left behind...
...said sourly. "Particularly because I stand the ground on which the late Benazir Bhutto [Zardari's assassinated wife] stood when she promised the reinstatement of the Chief Justice. And I stand on the ground that is sanctified by three signatures on three different occasions by the new President, Asif Ali Zardari. It's ironic that the person who didn't break an agreement should be on the run." (See pictures of Pakistanis mourning for Bhutto...