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...Pristina, meanwhile, Agron Bajrami, editor of the daily Koha Ditore acknowledged that frustration is growing. "I don't expect any major unrest this summer, " he said. But if elections are held as expected in November, and there is still no clear movement on the question, "even the mainstream parties will be tempted to adopt extreme strategies." Then it won't just be fireworks on display...
...quell unrest, Musharraf's best move could simply be to reinstate Chaudhry. "Then he wouldn't be the 100-foot giant stalking the cities and roads of Pakistan," says Aitzaz Ahsan, Chaudhry's lead counsel. But many consider it unlikely that the President will back down. Islamabad these days is permeated by fear that martial law will be declared. "My worry is that [Musharraf] is about to do something really silly and really dangerous," says Gilani. Musharraf "has now developed a larger-than-life self-image," adds Iqbal. "He thinks that he is Pakistan's destiny." Certainly he was once...
...Sunni Muslim fundamentalist faction that sprang up six months ago and is at the center of Lebanon's latest fighting. What is known, however, indicates that the group, based near the northern coastal city of Tripoli, is a product of past Middle East conflict, a manifestation of present unrest in Lebanon and an ominous sign of future turmoil throughout the region...
...army's indiscriminate shelling of the camp at Nahr al-Bared did not cease. Such a confrontation risks pulling in Hizballah, which, although a Shi'ite group, is closely allied with Sunni Palestinian factions such as Hamas. With Lebanon balanced on a knife-edge, many fear that unrest could cause the country to stumble back into the civil war that ravaged it between 1975-90, itself ignited amid friction involving armed Palestinian groups...
...conflict to include other mainstream Palestinian factions as well as Hizballah - which, though a Shi'ite group at odds with al-Qaeda, is nonetheless closely allied with Sunni Palestinian factions like Hamas. With Lebanon balanced on a knife-edge since Hariri's killing two years ago, many fear that unrest could cause the country to stumble backwards into the civil war that ravaged the country between 1975-90, itself ignited amid friction involving armed Palestinian groups...