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...Court appears in no mood to retreat from its defense of the rule of law. This week, Chief Justice Chaudhry ruled that the government's deportation of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on September 10 was illegal, raising expectations that it may continue defying the government despite the consequences. Sharif's party, meanwhile, has announced that the former prime minister will make another attempt to return home sometime this month, adding to the mounting challenges to Musharraf's authority...
...erstwhile Premiers - both of whom have been tried, tested and found wanting - should be anointed, Britain and the U.S. should support a truly democratic process with an emphasis on justice, accountability and honesty. Otherwise, the common man looks set to remain sidelined, while the likes of a U.S.-sponsored Nawaz Sharif or Benazir Bhutto and al-Qaeda-Taliban partisans will reign supreme from their respective corners. Burhan Khan, Beckenham, England...
...erstwhile Premiers - both of whom have been tried, tested and found wanting - should be anointed, Britain and the U.S. should support a truly democratic process with an emphasis on justice, accountability and honesty. Otherwise, the common man looks set to remain sidelined, while the likes of a U.S.-sponsored Nawaz Sharif or Benazir Bhutto and al- Qaeda-Taliban partisans will reign supreme from their respective corners. Burhan Khan, BECKENHAM, ENGLAND...
...helm. She inherited leadership of the party not long after her father's execution at the hands of military dictator Ayub Khan in 1979, and refused to relinquish power even when in exile. Since becoming Prime Minister in 1988, she has hopscotched into and out of power with archrivals Nawaz Sharif, the former Prime Minister who was ousted by military coup in 1999, and Musharraf. For the past 20 years those names have dominated the Pakistani political scene. "It really is like a soap opera," says Haq. "Year after year we still see the same faces, the same plot...
...This new round of arrests, following just two weeks after government forces slammed thousands of opposition party workers into jail before the arrival - and subsequent deportation - of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, is the latest sign of a government determined to hang on to power at all costs. "The government has panicked," says Ahsan Iqbal, Information Secretary for Sharif's PML(N) party, speaking from an underground safe house. "What are they trying to prove by bulldozing all opposition to their plans? Does anyone think this can be called a democracy...