Rice says arrests of Pakistani opposition troubling
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday the arrest of opposition activists in Pakistan was troubling, making a rare criticism of U.S. ally Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's government.
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Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto's party said on Thursday that police had 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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Pakistan appears no closer to  crippling al Qaeda or snaring its leader, despite scores of  militant arrests in recent months which highlighted its active  role in the war on terror, officials and experts say.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 22 -- With President Pervez Musharraf facing an election in just two weeks, police on Saturday night arrested key opposition leaders who had vowed to try to block the general's plans for winning a new term.
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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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Media reaction is fierce in the states dubbed "outposts of tyranny" by US secretary of state nominee Condoleezza Rice.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 27 -- Pakistan's chief justice ordered the release of hundreds of jailed opposition activists Thursday, while President Pervez Musharraf formally jumped into the race for another term despite a candidacy that remains in legal limbo.
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Pakistan has arrested up to six  people, including an Egyptian national, suspected of planning  major attacks in the capital Islamabad, Information Minister  Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on Saturday.
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Pakistan's government, accused of using strongarm tactics and acting unconstitutionally over moves to sack the country's top judge, faces the prospect of growing opposition protests.
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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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Pakistan appears no closer to crippling al Qaeda or snaring its leader, despite scores of militant arrests in recent months which highlighted
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Islamabad - Pakistani police detained the husband of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday, hours after a court ordered his re-arrest for failing to appear at a bail hearing in a murder case.
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The Belarussian Foreign Ministry has expressed displeasure with the fact that U.S. secretary of state nominee Condoleezza Rice mentioned Belarus among the countries she labeled as "outposts of tyranny" while ...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that the formation of a Palestinian unity government that includes the Hamas militant group complicates her high-profile peace mission this weekend, strongly suggesting that the new government falls short of standards that would allow a resumption...
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 3 -- The arrest of a senior Taliban leader in a Pakistani city long reputed to be a haven for the group kindled guarded hope among Western and Afghan security officials Friday that the government here plans to move more aggressively against insurgents taking refuge on its...
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Belarusian police detained opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich on Thursday during a visit to a province where he was gathering signatures in support of candidates for local elections, his spokesman said.
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KARACHI: The husband of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was under house arrest Wednesday, with analysts suspecting the government&#39;s hand in his detention just weeks after being freed from jail.