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Proof, perhaps, that a nut or two can change the course of history, the gunmen who strafed the Armenian parliament on Wednesday - although they appear to have had no particular plan or manifesto - may have managed to trigger a political crisis. The Armenian military Thursday demanded the resignation of a number of senior ministers over the security lapse that allowed the four gunmen to kill the country's prime minister and seven other senior politicians. "The danger now is that what appears to have been simply an outburst of insanity could be turned into a serious political crisis," says TIME...
...Pakistan's military high command dismissed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, placing Sharif and his close associates under arrest. Army Chief Pervez Musharraf proclaimed himself chief executive, declaring a state of emergency, placing the constitution in abeyance and suspending parliament. Sharif's ouster is the fourth successive dismissal of an elected government before it completed its term of office, bringing to an abrupt end the democratic process Pakistan's powerful army had itself put into place in 1988 when it reluctantly transferred power to the political leadership following eleven years of military rule...
...have directly or indirectly controlled Pakistan for most of its existence, Musharraf claims the army reluctantly intervened to prevent an unscrupulous and corrupt political leadership from destabilizing the armed forces, the last remaining viable institution after Sharif had systematically eroded the autonomy and authority of the president, the parliament and the judiciary. Refusing to give a definite timetable for the restoration of a civilian, representative government, Musharraf claims that the military will withdraw to the barracks once it has prepared the grounds for a "true democracy," having eradicated all the ills of the Pakistani state, where violence is rampant...
Military coups used to be messy affairs, rife with panic and barricades and bloodshed. After the overthrow of the democratically elected government in Pakistan last week, there was cheering. In the span of 48 hours, army chief General Pervez Musharraf detained Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, sacked the Cabinet, suspended Parliament and the constitution, and imposed virtual martial law. Yet most Pakistanis barely shrugged. Shops remained open. Telephone service was restored. Children went to school. In Sharif's hometown of Lahore, people danced in the streets and distributed candies to celebrate the coup. "We don't want democracy," said Mohammed Tariq...
...country's parliament has repealed the law, but the president has not yet signed the repeal into effect...