U.S. hopes Pakistan will not move to emergency rule
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Imposition of emergency rule would be a step backward for Pakistan and the United States hopes President Pervez Musharraf doesn't take such action, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.
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Pakistan on Sunday denied rumours of   a coup attempt against President Pervez Musharraf while he is   visiting the United States.
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Five years after Pakistan was revived as a key U.S. ally after the September 11 attacks, the new Democratic-led Congress is pressuring Islamabad and the Bush administration to do more to combat militant groups and stabilize the South Asian country.
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Pakistan&#39;s President Pervez Musharraf, who took power in a bloodless coup in 1999 on the grounds he could provide stable democracy, is strongly hinting he will not step down as army chief at the end of this year as promised.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - Pakistan told a visiting U.S. official on Thursday it was trying its best to plug its long, porous border with Afghanistan and denied Taliban leaders were hiding in Pakistan.
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Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto put her supporters on a collision course with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf Wednesday, urging them to defy a clampdown on protests against the U.S.-backed strongman's emergency rule
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf defends imposing emergency rule, insisting he is acting to curb extremism.
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The White House said on Friday it   was not U.S. policy to threaten Pakistan and former U.S.   diplomat Richard Armitage denied warning Pakistan's president   the United States would bomb his country after September 11.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday ruled out declaring an emergency amid a rising tide of militant attacks that have killed more than 130 people this month, officials said.
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf  this month rebuffed U.S. proposals to let the CIA have greater  latitude to operate in tribal areas where al Qaeda, the Taliban  and other militant groups are active, The New York Times said  in Sunday editions.
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The Bush administration said Thursday it is confident new restrictions set by lawmakers on $50 million in military aid to Pakistan will not prevent it from providing the money.
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FAISALABAD, Pakistan, June 17 -- Top U.S. officials visiting Pakistan on Saturday reiterated their confidence in the country's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, even as thousands of people took to the streets to demand his ouster.
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Al Qaeda has become entrenched in a remote corner of Pakistan, and the United States fears a military strike could spawn new militant activity in the country, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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President Pervez Musharraf lifted a six-week-old state of emergency Saturday, telling a skeptical nation the crackdown was to save Pakistan from a conspiracy rather than ensure his own political survival.
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Pakistan's opposition parties differ on how to interpret remarks by US officials on President Musharraf's future.
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President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan  said that after the September 11 attacks the United States  threatened to bomb his country if it did not cooperate with  America's war campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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A leading US-based human rights group said Saturday that President Pervez Musharraf's end to the state of emergency in Pakistan would not restore real constitutional rule.