Musharraf lifts emergency rule
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President Pervez Musharraf lifted emergency rule in Pakistan on Saturday in a move Western nations hope will stabilize the nuclear-armed state as Islamic militant violence spirals.
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Pakistan's chief justice resumed his official duties Saturday, a day after this Islamic nation's powerful military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf lost a bid to fire him, the biggest setback to the general's eight-year rule.
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Pakistani judges are expected to rule soon on whether President Musharraf can stand for re-election.
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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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While the government hailed an end to  emergency rule, many Pakistani politicians, voters and the  media said on Sunday that President Pervez Musharraf remained  entrenched in power with elections next month skewed in his  favor.
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President Pervez Musharraf is set to end emergency rule on Saturday but it was likely media would still face curbs with many judges and lawyers still under house arrest before Pakistan's election next month.
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Pakistan's former finance minister Shaukat Aziz, a key ally of President Pervez Musharraf, was sworn in as prime minister and won a vote of confidence that was boycotted by the opposition.
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Pakistan's upper house of parliament, the Senate, passed a bill curtailing the scope of Islamic laws on rape on Thursday, paving the way for President Pervez Musharraf to sign it into law.
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President Pervez Musharraf will lift Pakistan's state of emergency only after changing the constitution to ensure he cannot be hauled before a court, a senior official said Thursday, as lawyers held more protests against the retired general.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 20 -- Pakistan's high court on Friday delivered a stinging rebuke to President Pervez Musharraf, reinstating the country's chief justice four months after Musharraf tried to oust him and jeopardizing the president's plan to hold on to power.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 23 -- Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to return to the country after nearly seven years in exile, a decision that remakes the nation's political landscape and deals a major blow to President Pervez Musharraf as he...
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Thailand's interim government votes to accept a recommendation to partially lift martial law.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejigged his government on Friday at the end of a month-long state of emergency declared when Hamas Islamists seized control of the Gaza Strip.
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Pakistan's President Musharraf signs into immediate effect measures to  increase control over the media.
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Pakistan's Supreme Court rules that President Pervez Musharraf can stand in next week's leadership election.
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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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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.