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...serving the party of General Zia ul Haq, the military leader who overthrew Bhutto's father in 1977, then hanged him two years later. Her time serving under Bhutto's arch-nemesis Sharif is also barely mentioned, nor is her failed 2002 campaign in which she ran on President Pervez Musharraf's party ticket. All her party peregrinations were forgiven in 2003, she says, when Benazir Bhutto called her back into the fold, inviting her to London where she ran the party from exile. "Benazir personally asked me to return," Hussain told the crowd. Her personal herald, a short...
...trust, and for candidates such as Hussain campaigning on the PPP ticket, a potent political boon. Analysts, diplomats and politicians are expecting a large PPP sympathy vote on February 18, when Pakistanis go to the polls in an election that very well could lead to the ouster of President Pervez Musharraf, if the opposition wins a majority in parliament. "It's all about Benazir now," says Hussain. "After the 27th, I am much less relevant. It sounds terrible, but the death of Benazir has increased our chances...
...Qaeda operative. If confirmed, the death of Abu Laith al-Libi, believed to be one of the highest-ranking leaders of the terror group after Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, would be a coup in the war on terror. But it is also an embarrassment for President Pervez Musharraf, who has repeatedly said that he will not sanction U.S. attacks against al-Qaeda targets thought to be regrouping in Pakistan's ungoverned tribal lands along the border with Afghanistan...
...minute he was being hailed as a friend in the fight against terrorism, a defender of democracy; the next, he was being attacked as a dictator who could tear a nation apart. Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf was in London today, reassuring British Prime Minster Gordon Brown that his home country's parliamentary elections next month would be free and fair. But at a press conference an hour later, Imran Khan, ex-cricket legend and head of opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, warned that if Musharraf's party wins the majority on February 18, the world will witness protests...
...have taken centuries in reaching wherever you have come. Allow us time for going for the values that you have established for yourself.' PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, President of Pakistan, on accusations that he has rolled back democracy in order to maintain his power...