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...PLAYERS President Pervez Musharraf came to power in Pakistan in a bloodless 1999 coup promising to fix Pakistan's economy and clean it of corruption, which had grown under successive civilian leaders. General Musharraf is a former commando and fought in Pakistan's wars with its bigger South Asian neighbor - and constant rival - India in 1965 and 1971. He was Chief of Army Staff during a smaller conflict between the two countries in 1999, a bloody tussle that some feared might go nuclear as both India and Pakistan had just carried out nuclear tests and had - and continue to have...
...declaration of a state of emergency by Musharraf, who remains head of the army eight years after seizing power in a bloodless coup, suspended the constitution, blacked out independent television news stations and cut some phone lines. Soldiers and police patrolled parts of Islamabad, the capital...
...power-sharing agreement--announced two days before he won the Oct. 6 election--that has infuriated opposition activists. Musharraf's landslide victory was largely due to Bhutto's party members following her directive to abstain from voting. That gave the general, who came to power in 1999 in a bloodless coup and still holds the title of army chief, the legitimacy he craves as head of state. With the Supreme Court scheduled to decide on Oct. 17 whether Musharraf could run for office while serving in the military, critics fear martial law could follow if he is declared ineligible. They...
...currently a researcher at South Africa's University of KwaZulu-Natal, as well as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. As you would expect from that résumé, he writes like an academic - but that's not to say the book is bloodless. Patel has a highly developed historical sense of why we eat as we do, and if readers who have enough food understand how that surfeit originated, the more likely they are, he hopes, to make decisions that help others who go hungry...
...Pakistan's Supreme Court considers the latest petitions contesting his re-election bid--it already dismissed three such cases in September--Musharraf promised the court he would step down as army chief if re-elected President. The general, who became head of state in a bloodless coup in 1999, was given a one-time exemption to the constitutional law, allowing him to retain both positions until the end of his current term...