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...forceful action is helping Musharraf regain some public trust, but it may not be enough to counteract popular disillusionment with his increasingly desperate attempts to cling to power. This weekend in London the Pakistan All Parties Conference - made up of leading opposition members, including exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, whom Musharraf overthrew in a bloodless coup in 1999 - agreed to resign in protest should Musharraf go ahead with his plan to be re-elected by the current, hand-picked assembly. The only party that demurred is former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party. Rumors are rife...
...obstruct the President's bid for 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...
...flags of Pakistan's rival political parties waved, for once, in unison. Members of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, of Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League, of conservative Jammat Islamia and fundamentalist Jamiat Ulema Islam, were out in full force, as were thousands of ordinary Pakistanis. Rauf Naizi, a 33-year-old farmer, had been waiting hours for the Chief Justice to pass through Haripur, the halfway point on Chaudhry's route. "The government rents crowds for their rallies, but we are not getting money or food to be here," he said. "We come just...
...Cronje scandal prompted the International Cricket Council to set up an Anti-Corruption and Security Unit to go after illegal bookmakers. But rumors of match fixing linger. Former Pakistani fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz believes that South Asia's bookmaking Mafia still manipulates results and that a bookie is probably behind Woolmer's murder. "Where there is gambling, there is money," he says, "and where there is money, there is murder." Using cell-phone numbers that they discard daily, and a series of codes when speaking to avoid police detection, bookies in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Karachi and across the Arabian...
...Even before police announced that Woolmer's death had been the result of foul play, former Pakistan bowler Sarfraz Nawaz publicly proclaimed not only that Woolmer had been murdered, but also charged that he had been killed in order to protect the ongoing scourge of match-fixing. Sarfraz accused a number of Pakistan players of being involved in betting, and suggested that the team's lackluster performances against the West Indies and Ireland had been more sinister than simply a failure of technique on match day. Pakistani cricket officials angrily rejected such allegations...