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...drop corruption charges against her and her husband Asif Zardari so she could return from exile to run for office and regain the Prime Ministership. Nevertheless, Bhutto said that "extra-constitutional" methods were unnecessary and that martial law will only exacerbate Islamic militancy and terrorism. Meanwhile, the capital of Islamabad was in lockdown, with no demonstrations in sight as the roads surrounding the Supreme Court building were blocked by tanks and barbed wire and lined with hundreds of security personnel...
...Islamic] militancy in Pakistan. They are the ones that have presided over the signing of peace treaties and cease-fires in the tribal areas. They have lost control of our tribal areas. The militants are knocking on the doors of Swat; they are eyeing the capital city of Islamabad. They have access to superior sources of plastic explosives and they have constructed bombs and improvised explosive devices to be used against my rally, against the ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence] bus [in Rawalpindi on Oct. 20], against officers, against the air force. They call it suicide bombing...
...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...
...attack on a Pakistani Air Force bus that killed eight military personnel and wounded dozens more south of Islamabad, Thursday, brought this week's death toll in suicide bombings to 15. But the spate of increasingly violent attacks on targets associated with his regime is only one of the many threats confronting the embattled President Pervez Musharraf. Challenges to his authority from the courtrooms of the capital to the rebellious mountains of the northwest have once again raised the specter of a declaration of martial law in Pakistan...
This militant masjid has been goading Musharraf into armed conflict on the streets of Islamabad...