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...another term, which requires a constitutional amendment ratified by the Supreme Court and approved by Parliament. Chaudhry in private conversations had expressed doubt that the President should also be head of the army, says Asan Iqbal, Secretary of Information for deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League. "It was after that that the government got very concerned," Iqbal says...
...Search stats might also provide insight into the candidates' public image - namely which term searchers juxtapose with which candidate's name. For example, despite the passage of time, Internet users are still obsessing on Obama's association with the Muslim religion, with many variations on "barack obama muslim" appearing. Rudy Giuliani has numerous queries containing questions on his domestic policy positions, while McCain searchers are looking for information on his military service. On the lighter side, the users searching for Fred Thompson are focusing on his wife. And while Hillary has several associations with health care, specifically Medicare, her searchers...
...wake of the 9/11 attacks, Manzoor gives up a bit on America and its hopefulness, as his hero (on his album of reconciliation, The Rising) seldom does. But by then Manzoor has already showed us how to live as something more than just a Briton, a Muslim or a Pakistani. At a concert in New Jersey once, an American fan, taking him for a terrorist, challenges Manzoor to name his favorite Springsteen songs. As he starts to reel off the numbers that speak to him - one after another - the clash of civilizations suddenly begins to sound remote...
...authorities, since he is believed to have found refuge in Serbia under the protection of that country's military intelligence service. Mladic is wanted for his role in the shelling of Sarajevo, and also faces charges of genocide and crimes against humanity over the murder of some 7,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995. But for many Serbs, he is still considered a war hero. Initially, Mladic found protection under the regime of Slobodan Milosevic, but even after he was forced from office in 2000, Mladic continued to receive a pension from the Serbian military. The general...
...mounting body count in the south dashes hopes that last September's military coup might ease the crisis, because junta leader General Sonthi Boonyaratglin is a Muslim. Since the putsch, violence has worsened. On June 4, insurgents were blamed for a train derailment that caused the entire railway network in the south to grind to a halt. With no end in sight to the conflict, Thailand's government will have to work even harder to keep the violence from distracting the tourist trade...