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...Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif tried - and, as expected, failed - to get past a line of some 300 riot policemen in Islamabad on Thursday. In what may be a pre-election publicity stunt, Sharif had been trying to visit the deposed Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, who has been held under house arrest since President Pervez Musharraf instituted emergency rule on November 3. While hundreds of supporters chanted his name, police turned Sharif back at the concrete and barbed wire barricades. Undeterred, he addressed the crowd, saying, "I have come here to express solidarity with the Chief Justice...
...freedom of the press have to be repealed. The recent amendment to the Army Act, which allows military courts to try civilians, must also be abolished. And most importantly, Musharraf must resign from the presidency. His recent actions have lost him all credibility in the eyes of the Pakistani public and the world at large; a return to normality is not possible until he leaves both politics and the army...
This is not the time for small concessions but rather for meaningful change.The army must surrender power to a freely elected Parliament and must return to the barracks once and for all. Over 50 years of military hegemony must come to an end if the Pakistani people are to receive what was promised to them when independence was won: a government that fights not for its own interests but for the interests of its people...
...history and contending that the two men did not meet until the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in 1996. The Taliban that met with US forces in 2001 was a far cry from the Taliban that rose in the mid-1990s, having been manipulated by outside Arab and Pakistani forces including bin Laden, who was able to climb his way into the upper echelons of Taliban leadership. With no help coming from the international community, internal Taliban moderates were silenced. The United Nations’ tough stance on dealings with the Taliban only served to increase anti-Western sentiment...
...Musharraf shut down news channels on the pretext that they incite Pakistanis against the government. The corrupt Benazir Bhutto could become Prime Minister, having been pardoned through a controversial ordinance for stealing $1.5 billion from the Pakistani public. The judges who were going to strike down the ordinance were removed and put under house arrest after being manhandled by the local police. Militancy, suicide attacks and other forms of terrorism have increased greatly under Musharraf's rule. I am reminded of when the U.S. supported Saddam Hussein while he was brutally killing his own people. Will Pakistan end up like...