Pakistani opposition leaders arrested
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Police swept the Pakistani capital on Saturday to arrest the leaders of opposition parties vowing to obstruct President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's re-election bid, officials said.
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Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto's party said on Thursday that police arrested thousands of its activists overnight, hours after U.S. President George W. Bush urged President Pervez Musharraf to hold elections and quit as army chief.
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Pakistani police said they had arrested three members of a banned Islamic group, thought to be behind several attacks against minority Shiite Muslims in the country.
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A senior interior ministry official said that 11 or 12 suspects - one Egyptian, the others Pakistani - had been arrested more than a week ago in the capital Islamabad and other parts of the country.
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For speaking out against President Pervez Musharraf, one lawyer spent three weeks in jail and another is under house arrest in Lahore. None of these leaders can talk to one another.
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Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif was arrested at Islamabad airport on Monday and taken into custody about three hours after arriving home from seven years in exile.
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Malaysia said Thursday it has arrested five leaders of ethnic Indian rights group Hindraf under controversial security laws that allow for detention without trial.
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POLICE arrested the husband of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto today, less than a month after he won his freedom following an eight years behind bars.
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A Pakistani opposition alliance will field its jailed leader against a candidate backed by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in an election for a new prime minister, an opposition spokesman said Thursday.
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Pakistani police arrested 17 Afghans  suspected of being Taliban militants, including a former Kabul  police chief and a provincial governor, police said on Friday.
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Zimbabwe riot police arrested more than 200 opposition activists and officials on Saturday during a meeting they were holding at their party headquarters, an opposition spokesman said.
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Pakistani security forces have arrested more suspected Islamic militants a day after they shot dead a key suspect wanted in a failed attempt on President Pervez Musharraf&#39;s
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A Pakistani minister being investigated in connection with the death of a Canadian woman is arrested.
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At least five suspected terrorists, with alleged links to al Qaeda, have been arrested in Pakistan. It is claimed they had been plotting to launch suicide attacks on government leaders and the US Embassy.
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The head of a radical Pakistani mosque at the centre of a stand-off with security forces was arrested on Wednesday while trying to escape clad in a woman's burqa, officials said.
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India's main opposition leader Lal Krishna Advani is held during a protest against the arrest of a colleague.
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LAHORE, Pakistan - Leaders of this country's fractured political opposition began taking the first steps yesterday toward uniting against President Pervez Musharraf, who is facing widespread dissent after more than a week of emergency rule.