ELECTIONS ON AS SCHEDULED—AS LEAST FOR TODAY Earlier today, Pervez Musharraf announced that he expects to hold elections in early January and the National Assembly will be dissolved this week, as planned. Yesterday, Musharraf stated that elections would occur prior to February 15. Last Sunday, Shaukat Aziz warned that elections could be delayed for up [...]

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Pakistan’s GEO Television reports that People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has been put under house arrest by the government of Pakistan. Her party planned a rally in Rawalpindi today, the military’s administrative center and neighboring city to the capital, Islamabad. Hamid Mir of GEO states that the decision was made by the Musharraf’s camp [...]

NOTE: Bush in joint press conference with France’s Sarkozy speaks of his telephone conversation with Musharraf in which he told him, “You can’t be the president and the head of the military at the same time.” He added that extremism can’t be beaten with extremist tactics. ——————————————————————————————————————- Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte just completed [...]

URL: www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.pakistan06nov06,0,4170497.story The Baltimore Sun Pakistan suffering from Musharraf’s misdirected wrath By Arif Rafiq November 6, 2007 Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule Saturday, declaring that inaction would be suicidal for the country. However, his contravention and suspension of the country’s constitution is itself political suicide. Mr. Musharraf’s declaration of war against the judiciary, [...]

Bush: Musharraf must hold elections and resign from army Rice criticizes imposition of emergency rule; states U.S. aid to Pakistan “under review” Musharraf meets with U.S. ambassador Martha Raddatz/ABC NEWS: CENTOM chief “visibly upset” after leaving Friday meeting with Musharraf Tuesday’s U.S.-Pakistan defense talks delayed WEDNESDAY: Deputy Sec. of State Negroponte to testify before House [...]

Musharraf suspends constitution, declares emergency rule, and imposes Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) Transmission of news channels shut down in Pakistan Supreme Court Chief Justice sacked, arrested and replaced with Musharraf loyalist Over 1500 civilians arrested Senior figures jailed or house arrested: Lawyers’ movement: Aitzaz Ahsan, Munir Malik, Ali Ahmad Kurd, Tariq Mehmood, Ikram Chaudhry, Syed [...]