Pakistan premier 'broke the law'
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Pakistan's top judge accuses Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz of violating a Supreme Court judgement.
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The President suffers a crushing blow to his authority in Pakistan's general elections
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has dismissed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry,   alleging that he misused his office.      While the government officially denies it,   Chaudhry has been placed under house arrest, surrounded by a police barricade to prevent visitors:      "You cannot stop us from entering the residence of Iftikhar Chaudhry," (Qazi Hussain Ahmed, President of the Islamist opposition alliance Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal) told police, and then crossed the barricade.    The situation forced the police personnel to call reinforcement to foil the attempt of the opposition leaders.    Chaudry's "misuse of office" was to investigate   the disappearances of four hundred people, many of them human rights workers, who were arrested since the War on Terrorism began, as well as to prevent the sale of a government-run steel mill and the conversion of a public park in Islamabad to a privately-run mini golf club.    Chaudry's dismissal has provoked a constitutional crisis in Pakistan.  Of deep concern is that Pakistan possesses, and has successfully tested nuclear weapons.  What will become of them if the government falls?
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - President Pervez Musharraf's summary deportation yesterday of a returning political rival is likely to galvanize the country's prodemocracy movement, but it also sharply heightens the danger that the Pakistani leader will use unrest as a pretext for declaring emergency rule or martial law, analysts said.
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The Pakistani opposition leader's assassination has thrown the country into turmoil.
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Sept. 10 -- Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was deported from Pakistan Monday, just hours after he ended seven years of exile and returned to the country determined to take on his nemesis, embattled President Pervez Musharraf. Government officials said he was being flown ...
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SUKKUR, Pakistan  - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf made the country an international laughing stock by purging the judiciary after he imposed emergency rule in November, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Monday.
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Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki says a Sunni Arab woman's rape allegations against three Iraqi policemen are fabricated.
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Pakistan accused al Qaeda of killing opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, whose assassination has plunged the nuclear-armed country into crisis and triggered bloody protests.
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been banned from leaving the country, her Pakistan People's Party (PPP) says.
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Pakistan&#39;s caretaker prime minister has stepped down, clearing the way for Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz to take control of the country&#39;s Parliament.
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KANDAHAR -- President Hamid Karzai directly accused Pakistan's government yesterday of supporting the Taliban insurgency in his country, hours after a suicide attacker exploded himself in an Afghan governor's compound, killing eight. The attacks are aimed at undermining the government of Karzai.
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Former finance minister and President Pervez Musharraf's key loyalist Shaukat Aziz took the oath of office as the country's new prime minister, one day after his parliamentary election was boycotted by the entire opposition.
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Former premier Benazir Bhutto Monday condemned a ban on large rallies in the run-up to general elections proposed by the government after last week's deadly suicide attack on her convoy.
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A new bill that would allow Pakistan&#39;s president to continue serving as head of the military is generating controversy across the country.
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President Pervez Musharraf&#39;s loyalist Shaukat Aziz was elected as Pakistan&#39;s Prime Minister in a National Assembly vote boycotted by the opposition in protest of the speaker&#39; decision not to permit their jailed candidate Javed Hashmi to take part in the
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Pakistani interim Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain resigned today to pave the way for Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz to take over as head of the government in a few days.