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...taking by Nazim Hussain Siddiqi, the new Chief Justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court, was held at Musharraf's Rawalpindi residence rather than the grand presidential palace in Islamabad, the customary venue. "That's like having your Chief Justice sworn in at the Pentagon," says Aitzaz Ahsan, an opposition parliamentarian...
General Reinhard Gunzel was the commander of Germany's fabled Special Ops force, the KSK. No more. Last Tuesday, he was sacked for writing a letter to an obscure backbencher named Martin Hohmann. Normally, penning a letter to a parliamentarian hardly qualifies as high crime and misdemeanor. Germany is different, and for good reason. In his missive, the general praised the deputy for an "excellent speech" and assured him that "the majority of our people shares your thoughts." What had Herr Hohmann said? He'd called the Jews not a nation of victims but a "nation of perpetrators," responsible...
...KILLED. OM RAMSADY, 50, former Cambodian parliamentarian turned adviser to the National Assembly president, Prince Norodom Ranariddh; in Phnom Penh. Ramsady was shot at an outdoor cafe by what's known locally as "a flying bike"?a two-man hit squad on a motorcycle. Ranariddh, whose royalist Funcinpec party faces off against Prime Minister Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party in general elections in July, claimed the killing was a political assassination...
This fall council leaders appeared to bend the rules laid out for elections in the organization’s bylaws and constitution, which has led the group’s parliamentarian to say the council may need to revise the rules that govern its elections...
...Agarwalla ’04, the council’s parliamentarian, said that because of what happened during the election, the standing rules provision is “something that’s on my agenda...