news.bbc.co.uk - 3/15/2009
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Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif leaves his home to join an anti-government protest in Lahore on 15 March 2009
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 3/22/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
If you want something a bit under the
radar to worry about, consider Greg Miller’s LA Times...
article on the increasing use of airstrikes in Pakistan against alleged al-Qaeda targets. I can’t imagine that an American president ever ...
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Airstrikes in Pakistan
news.bbc.co.uk - 3/13/2009
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Missiles fired by an unmanned US drone have
killed at least 24 people in Pakistan's Kurram tribal...
region near the Afghan border, officials have said. Local officials said the dead were local Taleban and that the toll may rise. Thirty others were ...
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BBC NEWS | South Asia | Drone 'kills 24 Pakistan Taleban'
news.yahoo.com - 3/15/2009
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LAHORE, Pakistan Pakistan's opposition leader defied house arrest
on Sunday to join anti-government protests that quickly descended...
into violence and chaos, with running battles between stone-throwing protesters and police. The power struggle between ...
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Protests against Pakistani government turn violent
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Pakistan’s Gathering Shit-Storm - With Videos
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The political turmoil began last month when the Supreme Court disqualified the Sharif brothers from elected office, over convictions dating back to an earlier chapter in Pakistan’s turbulent political history.
On Saturday, after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke to both Zardari and Nawaz Sharif by telephone, the government announced it would appeal the Supreme Court ruling in the coming days. (AP)
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Pakistan opposition leader Nawaz Sharif has defied an apparent house arrest order ...
Pakistan Government In A Panic
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... By Steve Hynd
Yesterday I wrote that Zardari's government was getting desperate. Well now they're panicking and looking like they're scrambling to keep up with events, let alone keep a grip on the nation.
Nawaz Sharif has walked out of his house arrest, surrounded by supporters,
Describing the order - denied by the government - as "illegal" he left his Lahore home urging people to join him.
Police fired tear gas at the stone-throwing protesters who plan to march to Islamabad to demand judges sacked by the former government be reinstated. ...
Pakistani Political Crisis Looming?
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
Via the BBC: Pakistan ex-PM ignores ‘arrest’
Pakistan opposition leader Nawaz Sharif has defied an apparent house arrest order to head for a protest in Lahore.
Describing the order - denied by the government - as “illegal” he left his Lahore home urging people to join him.
Police fired tear gas at the stone-throwing protesters who plan to march to Islamabad to demand judges sacked by the former government be reinstated.
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Ahead of the protest, the ...
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