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...prosecuted with any success-is at an inflection point. An increasingly powerful opposition to Musharraf's rule has coalesced around the still-rumbling issue of the Chief Justice's suspension. It includes not just the activists of mainstream political parties such as former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party but also religious conservatives tired of being made into the scapegoats for the country's problems and progressive liberals alarmed by the increasingly dictatorial tendencies of the Musharraf regime. This opposition remains disunited, but it seems to represent a growing majority of the country's population...
...secular Pakistanis who could provide a bulwark against the threat of jihadism. Musharraf has pledged to hold general elections at the end of the year, but regaining the support of moderate groups may require him to go further and open up the vote to opposition leaders Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto, who have both been exiled. If Musharraf can prove that he is committed to democracy, Pakistanis may well choose to keep him in power. Armed with such a mandate, Musharraf would be better poised to tackle militancy in the tribal areas. Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri concedes...
...Pakistan who dismissed two democratically elected governments; in Peshawar. Khan, who served as Finance Minister and chairman of the Senate, replaced General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq as President after Zia's death in a plane crash in 1988. In 1990 he removed Pakistan's first female Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, and in 1993 dispatched her successor, Nawaz Sharif, over allegations of corruption and mismanagement. A Supreme Court ruling to restore Sharif to his position threw the country into turmoil, prompting an intervention by Pakistan's powerful military, which forced Khan to resign...
...BENAZIR BHUTTO The Pakistani PM regains power in spectacular comeback...
...result of the opposition infighting is that Zia will probably not feel obliged to call elections until 1990, when the term of the present Parliament expires. Though she may still rule Pakistan someday, Benazir Bhutto has learned that for a civilian politician in her fractious country, there is no shortcut to power...