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Person of the Week Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has granted himself sweeping new constitutional powers that strengthen his ability to thwart political opponents, including exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Musharraf, an army general, still maintains he is a force for democracy in Pakistan. But there can be no fair elections under his reforms...
Musharraf is openly disdainful of his chief political rivals, exiled former Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, whom he recently branded as plunderers of the public treasury. But Bhutto still wants to re-enter politics; she plans to run in the Oct. 10 parliamentary elections, even though Musharraf has threatened to arrest her if she dares return from her London exile...
...Pakistan's largest religious party, was arrested briefly last week after calling the referendum "farcical" and trying to lead a small protest. Musharraf has also been attacking the country's exiled former Prime Ministers, as they are the only rivals who might muster significant political support. "Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto have no role in Pakistani politics, this should be clear," he declared in a recent televised speech. Pakistan People's Party leaders claim that Musharraf has tried to make a deal with Bhutto, who has been convicted of corruption, to stay out of politics for the next five years...
...hold, instead of open and competitive elections, a referendum in May to extend his rule for five more years. The general is confident that public opinion and his increased international stature will carry him to victory. Analysts aren't sure. Pakistan's major political parties?former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party and the Pakistan Muslim League?have rejected the referendum as unconstitutional. Voter turnout is likely to be spare, which could bring embarrassing comparisons to Pakistan's last military dictator, General Zia ul-Haq, whose 1984 referendum generated widespread apathy...
...Chinese illegal immigrants who suffocated in the back of his truck while being smuggled into Britain from Belgium; in Maidstone, England. Of the original 60, two surviving immigrants told how Wacker had closed the air vent on one of the hottest days of the year. CONVICTION OVERTURNED. For BENAZIR BHUTTO, 49, the two-time Prime Minister of Pakistan; in Islamabad. The Supreme Court ruled that a 1999 trial convicting Bhutto of corruption was fixed, paving the way for the self-exiled Bhutto to return home. INDICTED. SONG HAK SAM, 55, for visiting North Korea and allegedly distributing a book sympathetic...