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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:43:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan Afghanistan Relations -- Pakistan&amp;#39;s Zardari Starts ...]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:43:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Following Pervez Musharraf's resignation last month, Zardari's swearing-in ceremony formally ended nine  years of military rule. It raised hopes among investors and foreign allies led by the United States that it would bring a degree of ...<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The China-Pakistan alliance against India]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:43:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the past nine years during Musharraf's rule, Pakistan built a very close relationship with China who provided him with strategic military support when he needed it most. With  Musharraf gone, it is time to review China and Pakistan ...<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan-US Relations [updated Aug. 25, 2008]]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:43:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Democracy has fared poorly in Pakistan, with the country enduring direct military rule for more than half of its existence. In 1999, the elected government was ousted in a coup led by then-Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf, ...<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hail Anarchy! Hail Pakistan!]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Hail_Anarchy_Hail_Pakistan/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:43:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[... Pervez Musharraf has finally stepped down from the post of the President after he was warned that impeachment proceedings would be started against him. (The Constitution of Pakistan does provide for the impeachment process of the ...<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[President Asif Ali Zardar - A Profile by Times UK]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/President_Asif_Ali_Zardar_-_A_Profile_by_Times_UK/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:43:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Without the army's backing - and the cooperation of the ISI, Pakistan's military intelligence agency - the war against the Taliban is hopeless. There are enough Pakistanis, particularly in the tribal borderlands, who feel Musharraf was ...<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Zardari succeeds Musharraf as Pakistan president]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Zardari_succeeds_Musharraf_as_Pakistan_president/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:43:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, was elected president of Pakistan on Saturday, election commission officials said. Earlier Saturday, lawmakers began casting votes in Pakistan's presidential ...<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[elections (I): President Asif Ali Zardari]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/elections_I_President_Asif_Ali_Zardari/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:43:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Following September 11, and a clear warning from US Vice-President Dick Cheney that if Pakistan did not sign up to the 'war on terror' it would be 'bombed back to the Stone Age', Musharraf eagerly signed up to the overthrow of the ...<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Major Good News from Pakistan!]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Major_Good_News_from_Pakistan/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:43:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Reflecting the new attitude in a post-Musharraf Pakistan towards Islamist militancy, the Pakistani government says it will not negotiate with the Tehrik-i-Taliban until it lays down its weapons. The ease with which the Taliban is being ...<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan restores judges ousted by Musharraf]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Pakistan_restores_judges_ousted_by_Musharraf/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:43:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday reinstated three judges ousted by former President Pervez Musharraf in another victory for the man set to succeed him as head of state.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan Condemns US Attack on Its Soil]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Pakistan_Condemns_US_Attack_on_Its_Soil/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:43:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[US airstrikes in Pakistan are not uncommon, and its forces in Afghanistan have been known to cross the border in &quot;hot pursuit&quot; of militants, actions which former president Pervez Musharraf was willing to tolerate despite being strongly ...<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[WEBSTER BROOKS COMMENTARY: Zardari&amp;#39;s Election As President Of ...]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:43:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With [no time] left before the election, tension in Pakistan is mounting as sniper fire pierced the windows of PPP Prime Minister Yousef Galani's motorcade. Since former President Musharraf's forced resignation, ...<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Zardari wins votes in Pakistan, succeeds Musharraf]]></title>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Zardari_wins_votes_in_Pakistan_succeeds_Musharraf/</link>
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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>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Pakistan_and_Afghanistan_misguided_strategic_priorities/</link>
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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>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/PAKISTAN_under_attack_by_none_else_but_its_closest_friend_and_---/</link>
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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>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Pakistan_The_causeway_for_Islamic_Finance___Islamic_Finance_---/</link>
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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>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/President_of_Pakistan_%7BAsif_Ali_Zardari%7D_Biography/</link>
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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>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Bush_Said_to_Give_Orders_Allowing_Raids_in_Pakistan_-_NYTimes-com/</link>
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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>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Pakistanrsquos_Zardari_sworn_in_as_president/</link>
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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>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/A_NEW_ALLY_AGAINST_TERROR/</link>
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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>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Pakistan_army_chief_criticizes_US_raid/</link>
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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>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Zardari_under_pressure_to_give_constitutional_indemnity_to_Musharraf/</link>
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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>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/A_step_forward_in_Americas_Dream_of_a_divided_Pakistanhellip/</link>
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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>
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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>
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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>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Pakistan_The_Godfather_as_President/</link>
<comments>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Pakistan_The_Godfather_as_President/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:29:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Pakistan_The_Godfather_as_President/</guid>
<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>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Bhuttorsquos_Widower_Takes_Office_in_Pakistan/</link>
<comments>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Bhuttorsquos_Widower_Takes_Office_in_Pakistan/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:29:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Bhuttorsquos_Widower_Takes_Office_in_Pakistan/</guid>
<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>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/The_Killing_Of_Jalaluddin_Haqqani_One_Of_The_Taliban39s_Most_---/</link>
<comments>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/The_Killing_Of_Jalaluddin_Haqqani_One_Of_The_Taliban39s_Most_---/</comments>
<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>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/I_Do_Not_Name_My_Chess_Pieces/</link>
<comments>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/I_Do_Not_Name_My_Chess_Pieces/</comments>
<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>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Bush_terms_Pakistan_a_major_theatre_in_terror_war/</link>
<comments>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Bush_terms_Pakistan_a_major_theatre_in_terror_war/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:28:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<category>Politics</category>
<guid>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Bush_terms_Pakistan_a_major_theatre_in_terror_war/</guid>
<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>
<comments>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/HSK_-_China_condemns_killings_in_Pakistan/</comments>
<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>
<link>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Bush_offers_full_support_to_Pakistanrsquos_new_president/</link>
<comments>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Bush_offers_full_support_to_Pakistanrsquos_new_president/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:28:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<category>Politics</category>
<guid>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Bush_offers_full_support_to_Pakistanrsquos_new_president/</guid>
<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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<comments>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Theatre_of_the_absurd/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:28:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<category>Politics</category>
<guid>http://www.controversial.org/Politics/Theatre_of_the_absurd/</guid>
<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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