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...however maintain some skepticism about the significance of the evidence, saying that just because it is ruled admissible and relevant does not necessarily mean that it will strengthen the case...
...what does this mean for the future of the country? It is a very big problem. It means that dictatorship will be sustained until it is reversed. It is a clear breach of the understanding that Musharraf has with my party. We have been engaged with him for a period of time for a negotiated peaceful transfer to democracy. He has promised to retire as army chief. He has promised to hold fair elections, and implement fair election reform. Contrary to these promises, he has imposed emergency without consulting me. We advised him against doing this. And he chose...
Does this mean that all negotiations with him are off? Are you pulling the plug? We are not pulling any plug; he is the one that stopped negotiating once I returned to the country. He calls me up to condole, and then after that I heard that his people were going to come and visit me to talk about the second phase, which was the implementation of the fair election proposal followed by the balance of power between the presidency and the parliament. But they never came. They kept saying they would come, but they never did. They never showed...
...what does this mean for negotiations? Are you done? Well, he may break his word, but we don't. We keep our word; we keep our commitments. We went forward with the process that we thought was in the national interest. Which was to take this nuclear armed nation, which is a key country in this region, towards democracy, so that there would be stability so that we could unite the forces of moderation, so we could confront the forces of extremism. But unilaterally they broke the negotiations by the imposition of emergency. So now we are demanding a return...
...temporary solutions: raise the paid lunch target to 66 percent—which would allow the schools to be between 56 percent and 76 percent paid lunch—or keep the 55 percent target and increase the “band” to 15 percent, which would mean the schools could be up to 70 percent paid lunch...