Pakistan temporarily releases opposition lawyer
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Pakistani authorities on Thursday temporarily released from detention a prominent opposition lawyer, who this year spearheaded a campaign against President Pervez Musharraf, the lawyer's son said.
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The husband of Pakistani opposition  leader Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest on Tuesday,  less than a month after his release from jail raised hopes for  reconciliation with President Pervez Musharraf.
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A foreign national held under the government's emergency anti-terrorism powers since 2001 is being released.
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CHAKWAL, Pakistan  - Pakistan's suspended chief justice traveled into the Pakistani heartland on Saturday to a tumultuous welcome from opposition supporters now posing a growing challenge to President Pervez Musharraf.
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Authorities on Saturday released a lawyer who was on a U.S. list of activists detained this year by Vietnam, two days before President Nguyen Minh Triet goes to the United States on a state visit.
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LAHORE, Pakistan  - A Pakistani lawyer who has spearheaded opposition to President Pervez Musharraf has come out of three months of detention as defiant as ever and insisting the president step down.
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Opposition swelled on Tuesday to the Pakistani government's move to sack the country's top judge as a judicial council prepared to hear the case against him behind closed doors.
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Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, recovering from injuries he says were inflicted by police, has been released from custody and is due to appear in court later on Wednesday, his lawyer said.
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Pakistani authorities have detained hundreds of opposition party activists in advance of a day of protests against the government this week, opposition party officials said on Tuesday.
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KARACHI, Dec 21: Pakistan Peoples&#39; Party leader Asif Ali Zardari was arrested after his bail in the Justice Nizam murder case was cancelled on Tuesday.
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In six weeks of emergency rule, which was lifted on Saturday, Pakistan's president has tightened his hold on power.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 11 -- A day after the Pakistani government deported former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his supporters launched a formal protest with the Supreme Court on Tuesday but were largely prevented from taking their pro-democracy movement to the streets by an aggressive security...
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Pakistan authorities put a prominent lawyer back under house arrest Saturday after he tried to visit the grave of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, his spokesman said.
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Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoini, a former Iranian lawmaker who has been jailed without charges in Tehran for more than 100 days, was briefly released from detention last Thursday to attend a memorial service, where he shouted out allegations of torture and other harsh treatment, according to his lawyers...
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Hundreds of lawyers rallied and boycotted courts across Pakistan on Thursday in a renewed campaign to force President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to step down, while supporters of former premier Nawaz Sharif prepared for his promised return from exile.
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The chief lawyer for Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf says he will give up his post of army chief if he is re-elected.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled yesterday that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, a bitter political foe of the country's president, can return from exile to lead his opposition party in coming parliamentary elections.