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PAKISTAN: Zardari's Katrina
Babylon & BeyondThe Pakistani media are calling it "Zardari's Katrina." President Asif Ali Zardari has become the lightning rod for the Pakistani public's fury with the government's handling of catastrophic floods that so far have killed 1,500 people across Pakistan,... -
Pakistan troops battle for key city in Swat Valley
The battle for the crucial Swat Valley city of Mingora began Saturday as Pakistani troops waged fierce street combat with Taliban militants and began the most difficult test yet in the monthlong offensive to regain much of northwest Pakistan from...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Wars and Interventions, Guerrilla Activity, Civil Unrest, Defense
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U.S. envoy praises Pakistan's campaign against militants
This war-ravaged nation has turned a corner and is now serious about crushing the Pakistani Taliban, U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke said Friday, yet the need is also growing for displaced Pakistanis to return home and rebuild their lives. Ending...Tags: Bombings, Rebellions, Guerrilla Activity, Wars and Interventions, Civil Unrest
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More Swat Valley refugees return home
They loaded their dirt-caked tents, clothes, bed frames and sacks of flour onto trucks early Monday and then piled into buses, desperate to leave the sweltering camps in northwestern Pakistan where they had lived for more than two months -- but unsure...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Disasters and Accidents, Foreign Aid, Explosions, Employees
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Musharraf is blocking a free vote
It has been more than a month since my wife, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated, and little has been done to identify the forces that ordered, planned and funded her murder. The forensic evidence was destroyed almost immediately after the assassination, and...Tags: Fraud, Corporate Crime, Civil Unrest, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan
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After Bhutto
It has taken less than a week for the tragedy of Benazir Bhutto's assassination to segue into the farce of a potentially disastrous dynastic succession. The slain former prime minister, a woman of enormous strengths and flaws, certainly had the legitimacy...Tags: Democracy, Hospitals and Clinics, Firearms, Civil Unrest, Defense
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Pakistan's clear message to the West
Politics is never dull in Pakistan. This week, it was inspirational too. On Monday, I watched people flock to the home of Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. A tense standoff between the government and a coalition of opposition groups over Chaudhry's...Tags: Democracy, Lawyers, John Kerry, Civil Unrest, Justice System
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Supporters rejoice as Pakistan chief justice quietly resumes duties
Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, who became a symbol of resistance to military rule in Pakistan, quietly resumed his duties Sunday after an incendiary two-year political confrontation that brought down one government and threatened another.
In a...Tags: Democracy, Lawyers, Wars and Interventions, Local Government, Civil Unrest
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Pakistan's extremist triumph
Maulana Sufi Mohammed, a radical cleric who was freed last year after spending six years in jail for leading 10,000 Pashtun tribesmen in opposition to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, has begun a new campaign. He is leading a peace march...Tags: NATO, Islam, Defense, Heads of State, Death
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Beyond Benazir
The Pakistan Peoples Party's decision to elect Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, as co-chairs of the party in the aftermath of her assassination is being criticized as representing dynastic...Tags: Democracy, Family, Civil Unrest, Defense, Pervez Musharraf
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Obama's Afghan challenge
For Barack Obama, Iraq is the bad war and Afghanistan the good war. The president-elect has promised to cut back our involvement in the former and wage the latter with vigor, committing more troops and money. Paradoxically, Obama's solution for...Tags: Lehigh University, Education, NATO, Wars and Interventions, Foreign Aid
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Pakistan elections to test president's might
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe lingering sting of tear gas hung in the air as Roedad Khan, a retired senior civil servant in his 80s, straightened his sensible cardigan sweater and railed unreservedly against President Pervez Musharraf. "He is shameless, simply shameless," said...Tags: Referenda, Political Development, Family, Los Angeles Times, Demonstration
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