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...return of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif adds a new twist to the political chess game that has dragged on for the past few months in Pakistan. Sharif, who was ousted by current President General Pervez Musharraf in a bloodless 1999 coup and who left Pakistan for exile after being found guilty of corruption, arrived in Lahore Sunday and was greeted by hundreds of chanting supporters. Government officials said he had been allowed back into the country after reaching an "understanding" with Musharraf. But Sharif said there was no such understanding. He was back, he told the crowd, "to save...
...March 14 block has refrained from fulfilling a threat to elect a president drawn from its own ranks if no consensus candidate was found. The opposition has warned that it would not recognize a March 14 president and would consider such a move a "coup." Paul Salem, director of the Carnegie Endowment's Middle East Center, said that if March 14 tried to elect a president, Hizballah would try to stop them physically from meeting. "That means road blocks and men with guns and that means other men with guns and that's very dangerous," he said...
There he was, commanding an Italian piazza like only he knows how. Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister and ever unpredictable media mogul, had come to the center of Milan on Sunday for yet another coup de théâtre: to announce the formation of a new political party, a move meant to inject some life into the country's sagging center-right opposition. But 13 years after entering politics by founding the hokey yet effectively named "Forza Italia!" (Go Italy!) party, the 71-year-old Berlusconi seemed to be improvising when reporters asked him the name...
Musharraf came to power in a 1999 coup. Internationally, Musharraf is often criticized for serving as president while maintaining his position as head of the Pakistani military...
...caused shock and resentment. Millions of Australians felt that Whitlam, their hero, the great reformer of government policy in the domains of race, immigration, foreign policy and the arts, had been stolen from them. There are still plenty of people around who regard this as not far from a coup d'etat...