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...Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated a new season of political instability by announcing that his Pakistani Muslim League (PML-N) would withdraw on Tuesday from the government led by the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) - the party now led by Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto...
...former U.N. ambassador, who three years after his 1992 disappointment badgered and cajoled the warring parties in Bosnia into a peace deal few had thought possible, has the more finely tuned short-range political ear of the two. In a late-December conference call following former Pakistani Prime Minster Benazir Bhutto's assassination, some Clinton policy aides argued for a soft line on President Pervez Musharraf. Holbrooke countered that Clinton should not just slam Musharraf for dictatorial tendencies but also attack George W. Bush for being gullible in trusting the Pakistani leader as much as he had. Holbrooke "was making...
...Supreme Court judges and 48 other judges had been detained amid a crackdown on civil liberties. "I order all the detained judges to be released immediately," Gilani told the gathered parliamentarians after the national assembly voted the majority Pakistan People's Party stalwart in as premier. "Our slain leader Benazir Bhutto sacrificed her life for the cause of democracy, and now it is our responsibility to strengthen the democratic institutions in line with the aspirations of common people...
...member of the new power elite who has a grudge against Musharraf. Asif Ali Zardari, who heads the populist PPP, which dominates the ruling coalition and got the most votes in the February 18 elections, blames Musharraf in part for the assassination of his wife, two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Nawaz Sharif, the head of the Pakistan Muslim League, which was the second largest vote gainer, was deposed by Musharraf in 1999, and forced into exile...
Today's announcement was expected to be made by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the 19-year-old son of Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated last December during campaigning for the parliamentary poll. Party officials said Bhutto Zardari was feeling unwell, but some observers speculate that his absence may have been a tack to spare him from answering questions about reported PPP infighting over the premiership. Bhutto Zardari is a student at Oxford, as his mother and politician grandfather were before him, and he became the co-chair of the PPP days after his mother's murder. But the young Bhutto Zardari...