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 Pakistan's president and the opposition ...
timesonline.co.uk - 3/16/2009
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timesonline.co.uk —
We are all too familiar with the persecution
of Christians in countries such as Pakistan and Afghanistan....
Yet sitting in front of me is a British woman whose life has been threatened in this country solely because she is a Christian. Indeed, so real ...
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My imam father came after me with an axe
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Pakistan arrests opposition leader Nawaz Sharif
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... among his supporters. It will also likely damage the democratic credentials of the one-year-old government led by U.S.-backed President Asif Ali Zardari. The arrest order came hours after the government announced its first major concession in the monthlong political crisis by pledging to appeal a disputed court ruling against Sharif and his brother. Sharif's spokesman Pervez Rasheed said hundreds of police surrounded his house Sunday in the eastern city of Lahore.Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090315/ap_on_re_as/as_paki...
Pakistan Government In A Panic
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... The Pakistani interior minister, Rehman Malik, tried to tell the BBC that there was never a warrant for Sharif's arrest and that riot police blocking access to his house were only there to protect Sharif from terrorists. But Punjab province home secretary Rao Iftikhar Ahmed told AP that authorities had decided to relax restrictions on Sharif so that he could address the rally and return home. ...
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