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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:24:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Zardari wins votes in Pakistan, succeeds Musharraf]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:24:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Saturday's election of Asif Ali Zardari as president of Pakistan appears to be just what the Bush administration hoped for. The world's only Islamic nuclear state replaced its unpopular US-backed dictator with a Western-leaning ...<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan and Afghanistan: misguided strategic priorities]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:24:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This contrasts sharply with the Musharraf-era negotiations that took place directly between the Army and the militants themselves. This strategy sounds similar in many respects to the notions proposed by Thomas Johnson and Chris Mason ...<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PAKISTAN under attack! by none else but its closest friend and ...]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:24:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Clearly the democrats in Pakistan are as compliant with US plans just as Musharraf was before them. The only path is for the Pakistani people to reject failed democratic or dictatorial politics, which sell the sovereignty to foreign ...<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bhutto’s Widower Assumes Presidency in Pakistan]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Bhuttorsquos_Widower_Assumes_Presidency_in_Pakistan/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:23:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Asif Ali Zardari, widower  of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, assumed the presidency of Pakistan on Tuesday, concluding a transfer of power that began with the resignation of former President Pervez Musharraf just two weeks ago. ...<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan: The causeway for Islamic Finance [?] | Islamic Finance ...]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:23:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Pakistan: The causeway for Islamic Finance | Islamic Finance and Banking With General Pervez Musharraf having stepped down as president of Pakistan, analysts are waiting to see what effect this has on the country's economy. ...<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[President of Pakistan {Asif Ali Zardari} Biography]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:23:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[[38][39] Chairman Zardari and Mian Nawaz Sharif, leader of the PML-N, along with some smaller political parties, joined forces in an electoral coalition that won a heavy majority in the elections and unseated Musharraf's ruling Pakistan ...<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bush Said to Give Orders Allowing Raids in Pakistan - NYTimes.com]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:23:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[... a major test for Pakistan's new president, Asif Ali Zardari, who supports more aggressive action by his army against the militants but cannot risk being viewed as an American lap dog, as was his predecessor, Pervez Musharraf. ...<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Indians rethinking Kashmir: Kashmiris yearn to be free and become ...]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:23:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mr Abdullah, who met Mr Musharraf in Islamabad two years ago, says that former president was willing to &quot;set aside the UN resolutions [on a settlement to the problem through a plebiscite] and so much more&quot;. ...<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan’s Zardari sworn in as president]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:23:39 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Pakistan's top judge swore in Asif Ali Zardari at a brief ceremony in the presidential palace recently vacated by Pervez Musharraf, who resigned under pressure last month.  With his three children among the well-wishers and dignitaries ...<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A NEW ALLY AGAINST TERROR!!!!]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:23:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The previous president, Pervez Musharraf, took a lukewarm stance toward the growing Islamist threat in Pakistan. By contrast, Zardari has vowed  to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaeda forces occupying the country's frontier provinces. ...<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[American Raids Penetrating Pakistan - September 9, 2008 - The New ...]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:23:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[&quot;With Musharraf gone, the policy of self-deterrence is now gone,&quot; a former senior counterterrorism official for both the Clinton and Bush national security councils, Roger Cressey, said. &quot;We would deter ourselves from doing anything for ...<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan news of September 10, 2008]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:23:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Musharraf, the former President of Pakistan had failed to carry out his responsibility. Mr. Zardari, is expected to address the parliament after his return from his schelduled visit of China. US strikes inside Pakistan undermining ...<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan army chief criticizes US raid]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:23:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Parties which won February elections forced Musharraf to quit as president last month. The military, which has dominated Pakistan for much of its 61-year  history, has said it will follow the lead of the new civilian government. ...<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistani, Afghan Presidents Pledge to Work for Peace]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:23:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The meeting marked a bold departure for the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which struggled for years under former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf to find common ground following the start of the US-led war in Afghanistan ...<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jammu Kashmir Ladakh trifurcation: &amp;quot;Kashmir will go on a platter ...]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:23:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[&quot;Musharraf was a single window system so to  speak, that we had to deal with in Pakistan. That window has gone. India flunked that opportunity and we all played a part in it. Well we are living to rue that mistake now. ...<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Zardari’s Good News May Be No News At All]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Zardarirsquos_Good_News_May_Be_No_News_At_All/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:23:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[…warned that if the president-elect Asif Ali Zardari and his government did not change the policies of the former president, Pervez Musharraf, then Pakistan would be in great trouble. Hafiz Saeed claimed that Zardari's policy would only ...<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Zardari under pressure to give constitutional indemnity to Musharraf]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:22:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sources in the Pakistan People's Party confided to this correspondent that internal and foreign powers, which had facilitated the Aug 18 resignation of Musharraf, wanted Zardari to ensure that the ousted dictator was neither tried nor ...<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A step forward in Americas Dream of a divided Pakistan…]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:22:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[So the plan was not to let Pakistan move in the right direction for which you had to get rid of a strong, forward moving and bold leader like Musharraf and to bring in someone who will be the total opposite and take Pakistan back to the ...<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10% on Defense of Pakistan Day]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/10_on_Defense_of_Pakistan_Day/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:22:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If the current political math holds, Asif Ali Zardari, the co-Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples' Party appears to be a shoo-in to succeed General Pervez Musharraf as the next regular President of Pakistan on September 6. ...<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Delhi strategy to destroy Pakistan: Indian Defense Review بغل میں ...]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Delhi_strategy_to_destroy_Pakistan_Indian_Defense_Review_%D8%A8%D8%BA%D9%84_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%BA_---/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:22:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Is Pakistan's army running scared? |  Pakistan: Musharraf holds the key. With disintegration of ISI's inimical activities of infiltration and pushing of fake currency into India, from Nepal and Bangladesh will cease. ...<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Zardari sworn in as Pakistan president]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:29:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In a ceremony held in Islamabad, widower of slain leader Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari. was sworn-in as the new president of Pakistan on Tuesday. Zardari succeeded Musharraf, the former president who resigned on August under threat ...<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan: The Godfather as President]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:29:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Why did the US suddenly withdraw support from General Musharraf? An answer was provided on August 26 by Helene Cooper and Mark Mazzetti in the New York Times. The State Department, according to this report, was not in favor of an ...<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bhutto’s Widower Takes Office in Pakistan]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:29:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Musharraf, and pushed his closest rival, Nawaz Sharif, out of the coalition government, a move that cleared the way for his ascension to the most powerful job in Pakistan. He takes office as Pakistan, a nuclear power with 165 million  ...<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Killing Of Jalaluddin Haqqani, One Of The Taliban&amp;#39;s Most ...]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:28:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[&quot;With Musharraf gone, the policy of self-deterrence is now gone,&quot; a former senior counterterrorism official for both the Clinton and Bush national security councils, Roger Cressey, said. &quot;We would deter ourselves from doing anything for ...<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[I Do Not Name My Chess Pieces]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:28:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the east, the Pushtan is open season and why would the west want a new man in Pakistan?  Perhaps the answer is Musharraf helped create the terrorist cesspool which Obama and Clinton were  talking about nuking and would do little to ...<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bush terms Pakistan a major theatre in terror war]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:28:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[... will have to continue to pursue the policies of the Musharraf administration for combating militants in tribal areas and  in the rest of the country - a policy which contributed to the former president's unpopularity in Pakistan. ...<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HSK - China condemns killings in Pakistan]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/HSK_-_China_condemns_killings_in_Pakistan/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:28:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[President Pervez Musharraf convened a high-level meeting yesterday on how to crack a nearly weeklong resistance. In 2004, three Chinese technicians working for a project in the volatile southwestern province of Baluchistan were killed ...<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bush offers full support to Pakistan’s new president]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:28:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[&quot;They bear a finite danger to Pakistan's forthcoming as a liberated and egalitarian nation.&quot; Zardari took duty weekday and succeeds Pervez Musharraf, digit of the most essential US allies in  the struggle on terrorism, who also  mutual a ...<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Theatre of the absurd]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:28:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If he chooses instead to adopt a political stance, he would for a period of time become the most powerful man in Pakistan in the Musharraf tradition, but in accordance with historical experience, he would ultimately meet a similar end ...<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Welcome to the party, President Zardari]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:28:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When Pervez Musharraf was Pakistan's president, US policy-makers may have respected President Musharraf's warnings against the cross-border strikes. US officials may have concluded at that time that President Musharraf and his command ...<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gen. Petraeus pushes attacks in Pakistan?]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Gen-_Petraeus_pushes_attacks_in_Pakistan/</link>
<comments>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Gen-_Petraeus_pushes_attacks_in_Pakistan/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:28:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Gen-_Petraeus_pushes_attacks_in_Pakistan/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;With Musharraf gone, the policy of self-deterrence is now gone,&quot; a former senior counterterrorism official for both the Clinton and Bush national security councils, Roger Cressey, said. &quot;We would deter ourselves from doing anything for ...<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Musharraf missed the point]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:28:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Such an initiative would communicate the true enlightened spirit of a nation that has refused to die despite repression and upheaval, and given the world a credible window on Pakistan. This was not to be, for Mr Musharraf, ...<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Zardari sworn in as Pakistan president-elect]]></title>
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<comments>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Zardari_sworn_in_as_Pakistan_president-elect/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:28:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The 53-year-old takes office amid mounting international concern about the stability of Pakistan, which under Musharraf backed the United States after the September 11 attacks in 2001 and in its subsequent invasion of Afghanistan. ...<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[International - Bush offers full support to Pakistan’s new president]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/International_-_Bush_offers_full_support_to_Pakistanrsquos_new_president/</link>
<comments>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/International_-_Bush_offers_full_support_to_Pakistanrsquos_new_president/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:28:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[&quot;They pose a mortal threat to Pakistan's future as a free and democratic nation.&quot; Zardari took office Tuesday and succeeds Pervez Musharraf, one of the most important US allies in  the war on terrorism, who also  shared a close personal ...<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Pakistani president must improve human rights]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/New_Pakistani_president_must_improve_human_rights/</link>
<comments>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/New_Pakistani_president_must_improve_human_rights/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:28:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Asif Ali Zardari was elected as the new president of Pakistan on 6 September when president Pervez Musharraf resigned on 18 August, after the new elected government in  Pakistan threatened him with impeachment proceedings. ...<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[150 PAKISTAN NUCLEAR WARHEADS!]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/150_PAKISTAN_NUCLEAR_WARHEADS/</link>
<comments>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/150_PAKISTAN_NUCLEAR_WARHEADS/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:28:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Last November's National Reconciliation Ordinance, brokered by the Americans to allow Bhutto's return to Pakistan and passed by Musharraf, rid him of the rest. It also guaranteed him lifelong immunity from prosecution for corruption. ...<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The new tenant in President House]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:28:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[But a more likely explanation is pressure from the US, which although having reluctantly agreed to let him resign wanted Musharraf to be spared an inquisition and to remain in Pakistan to ensure that the war on terror strategy to which ...<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistani Goings On]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:28:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[But it certainly represents the achievement of  the US plan to back Bhutto and basically install her in Pakistan after it was clear that our SOB in Pakistan, Musharraf, was in an untenable position (well Cheney apparently held out on ...<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[‘Dictatorship’ warning on eve of Zardari’s inauguration]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/lsquoDictatorshiprsquo_warning_on_eve_of_Zardarirsquos_inauguration/</link>
<comments>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/lsquoDictatorshiprsquo_warning_on_eve_of_Zardarirsquos_inauguration/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:27:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/lsquoDictatorshiprsquo_warning_on_eve_of_Zardarirsquos_inauguration/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[... in tomorrow as Pakistan's president, following his election victory at the weekend, amid warnings from opposition voices that the country is in danger of a &quot;civilian dictatorship&quot; after the military rule of General Pervez Musharraf. ...<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan, Afghan Presidents Pledge to Work for Peace Zardari ...]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Pakistan_Afghan_Presidents_Pledge_to_Work_for_Peace_Zardari_---/</link>
<comments>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Pakistan_Afghan_Presidents_Pledge_to_Work_for_Peace_Zardari_---/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:27:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The meeting marked a bold departure for the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which struggled for years under former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf to find common ground following the start of the US-led war in Afghanistan ...<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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