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...look at Pakistan, this is really a ticking time bomb,” Allison said. “It’s hanging by the thread of Gen. Pervez Musharraf. And he’s twice been within a second and a half of assassination the last six months...
...FORCED TO RESIGN. ZAFARAULLAH KHAN JAMALI, 60, Prime Minister of Pakistan, after 19 months in office; in Islamabad. The country's strongman President Pervez Musharraf was displeased with Jamali for failing to endorse his policies and shield him from an increasingly restive Parliament. Jamali will be replaced by ruling Pakistan Muslim League party president Chaudry Shujat Hussain, regarded as more obedient to Musharraf...
...remains a tolerant country with a majority of its people supporting secular viewpoints. It has a Muslim President and now a Sikh Prime Minister. The irony of the subcontinent is that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India was born in the western Punjab, now part of Pakistan, and President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan was born in India. Vearesh Sharma Toronto...
...ancient religious rivalry is depressingly familiar to Pakistan. Human-rights activists say that since the mid-'80s, more than 4,000 people have been killed in Sunni-Shi'ite feuds. Last year, for example, Sunni and Shi'ite gunmen marked each other's doctors and lawyers for assassination. President Pervez Musharraf waved off calls for the federal government to step in to curtail further bloodshed, saying he would refrain from "panic reactions." Fearing more attacks, a banker says he won't let his boys attend Friday sermons: "It's better to miss your prayers than to lose...
...presidential elections after United Democratic Front leader Bingu wa Mutharika was declared the winner. A New Suspect PAKISTAN Security officials said that an al-Qaeda-linked militant thought to have helped organize the kidnapping and murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl masterminded two failed assassination attempts against President Pervez Musharraf in December. Musharraf earlier announced that junior military personnel were involved in the attacks on him. MEANWHILE IN BRUSSELS ... Lost in Translation The European Commission instructed staff to write shorter documents, as the arrival of 10 new member states - taking the number of official languages from 11 to 20 - threatened...