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...from Israel, which lost nine citizens in the Mumbai carnage, may make a crucial difference this time. "As of now, there is tremendous anger among the Americans and the Israelis," he says. "But we need to see how things will be two, three months later." -With reporting by Ershad Mahmud / Rawalkot...
...With reporting by Ershad Mahmud / Rawalpindi
...colleagues in power reverse Musharraf's anti-democratic moves, they may find it wise to preserve his stability-seeking measures. Figuring out how much of Musharraf's legacy to undo may be Gilani's biggest challenge as the country's new Prime Minister. With reporting by Ershad Mahmud/Islamabad
...Reformist voters were more resigned. At the Hosseiniye Ershad Mosque in North Tehran, Aliyeh Mostofovi, 50, said she had come to vote although she thought the results wouldn't be to her liking. "Western countries always say we're forced to vote. I've come to show that we vote because we want to," she said...
...Ershad's exit boosted hopes for democratic succession in a country whose political history has been written in blood. Though he vowed to run for the presidency again, legislators in his own Jatiya Party were resigning last week and even military loyalists encouraged him to go. Scandals, a tyrant's image and a 50% rise in oil prices since the Persian Gulf crisis broke out sealed his doom. Said one movement leader: "From government officers to ricksha pullers, all were out in the street. It was phenomenal." It will also be phenomenal if democracy manages to heal a country that...