Pakistan’s election commission has announced that the parliament and the country’s four provincial assemblies will elect a new president on September 6. VOA’s Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad that the election to replace former president Pervez Musharraf, who resigned this week, is likely to test the country’s fragile coalition government.
Pakistan’s president has historically been a [...]
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Written on August 26, 2008 | Posted in
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Deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry will arrive in Karachi today and he will be received on his arrival at the Karachi airport and will be taken through a rally to the residence of the Sindh High Courts deposed chief justice Justice Sabihuddin Ahmed according to the Karachi Bar Association leaders, deposed chief justice Iftikhar [...]
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Today we honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. a man who struggled for peace, justice and civil rights. Yet just a few days ago passed the 5th anniversary of Guantanamo, where detainees are being held indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism and are stripped the right to challenge their imprisonment. The Bush administration has clarified that [...]
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Written on January 15, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized
