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MASOOD HAIDER: UPDATE ON PAKISTAN:
08/11/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 08 November 2007 --
Pakistan's elections will he held by
mid-February, state media quoted Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf hours
after President Bush spoke with the General asking him to hold elections and
take off his uniform.
Gen.
Musharraf is under growing pressure from the
United States
and his domestic opponents
to end the emergency declared Saturday and hold elections in January, as
originally planned.
According
to reports some 4,000 protestors have been incarcerated by the Musharraf regime
in a crackdown on lawyers, poetical workers, human rights activists.
News
reports from Islamabad say the centre of the capital is virtually sealed off.
All roads leading to President House and the Supreme Court are inaccessible.
The
General has barricaded himself in. Even the army tennis courts which stand next
door to the entrance to the Prime Minister's residence are under guard.
The
law courts have ground to a halt. Half the country's Supreme Court judges have
been dismissed including the top judge, Iftikhar
In
the five days since emergency rule, it seems the protests are growing but only
very slowly and tentatively.
Meanwhile the New York Times reported Thursday that military
attachés from the United States and several other Western nations are
discreetly contacting senior Pakistani generals and asking them to press General
Musharraf, the president, to back down from the emergency decree he issued
Saturday night, according to a Western diplomat.
THIS
COULD BE THE END GAME FOR GENERAL MUSHARRAF.
THERE
ARE SOME REPORTS WHICH SUGGEST THAT HE MAY SEEK ASYLUM IN TURKEY.
STAY
TUNED...
Labels: United
Nations, U.N., Masood
Haider, Pakistan
coup, Gen.
Pervez Musharraf, dictator
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