Pakistan ruling party eyes ban on forced marriage
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Pakistan's ruling party introduced a bill on Tuesday aimed at outlawing the forced marriage of women and practices preventing them from inheriting property.
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The Pakistan People's Party releases the political will of former leader Benazir Bhutto in which she backs her husband to be party leader.
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The appointment of Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son, Bilawal, as party chief will rally the party  -  if elections go ahead
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A plan by Indonesia's president to extend a ban on polygamy by civil servants sparks an angry response.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan  - Pakistani voters are expected to succeed where President Pervez Musharraf has failed, pushing back the Islamist tide and throwing out of power political clerics governing Pakistan's violent northwest.
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ISLAMABAD: After the historical Supreme Court verdict to free Zardari on bail, PPP stalwarts have stepped-up efforts to persuade the spouse of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto to lead anti-government rallies slated to begin from Peshawar on December 6, under the
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The party of Benazir Bhutto will meet to discuss her successor and whether to contest Pakistan's election next month.
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Pakistan will decide whether to hold elections on 8 January, despite Benazir Bhutto's death.
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Benazir Bhutto's party made public Tuesday the will in which she endorsed her husband to succeed her
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Pakistani authorities are considering a ban on political processions in the run-up to a general election after a bomb attack on former prime minister Benazir Bhutto killed 139 people.
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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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Call it a kissing crackdown. Indonesia's government is considering a law banning unwed couples from pecking in public &#151; and harshly penalizing those who do, The Jakarta Post reported Saturday.
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Pakistani opposition leaders cranked up pressure on President Pervez Musharraf on Monday, after doubts were cast over his re-election plans by the Supreme Court's reinstatement of a judge seen as a symbol of resistance.
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Members of Pakistani religious parties hoped to hold talks on Saturday with a radical cleric holed up in an Islamabad mosque and persuade him to send out children among his hundreds of besieged militant followers.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The party of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said Friday it would try to remove President Pervez Musharraf if it wins next week's parliamentary elections.
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The Pakistani government is expected  to resume power-sharing talks with former prime minister  Benazir Bhutto but opponents inside the ruling party must be  won over if a deal is to be struck, a government official said  on Monday.
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Pakistani opposition parties on Thursday nominated a politician serving a life term in jail for defaming the military as a candidate in an election for a new prime minister.