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Thursday, 04/14/2005 12:01:24 PM

Thursday, April 14, 2005 12:01:24 PM

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The United States is pressing Pakistan on democracy which means goodbye to Musharraf.
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The United States may be looking at reinstalling Benazir Bhutto who is in forced exile in Dubai. The United states is an ally of Dubai.

Bush needs a compliant subordinate in Pakistan in the image of Karzai of Afghanistan.

The United States is well known to be behind manipulated mobs such as the Bhutto demonstrators. Many times Bush’s backstage maneuvering corrupts the causes of just or legitimate demonstrations at times causing an overreaction from the targeted government.

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Pakistan detains Bhutto's supporters ahead of rally
13 Apr 2005 19:05:07 GMT

Source: Reuters

LAHORE, Pakistan, April 13 (Reuters) - Police in Pakistan arrested hundreds of activists on Wednesday planning to welcome home the husband of opposition leader in exile Benazir Bhutto.

The arrests created the prospect of a showdown between police and Bhutto's supporters on Saturday, the day military leader President Pervez Musharraf leaves for peace talks in India.

"We have detained people but we do not know how many," said Aftab Cheema, a senior police officer in the eastern city of Lahore. "The operation will continue and we will arrest anyone we think can disrupt the peace."

Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, was released from prison on bail in November after eight years of detention on charges ranging from corruption to murder.

He is due to return to Pakistan on Saturday from a visit to see his wife in Dubai and supporters of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) have promised a big show of support to welcome him home upon arrival in Lahore.

Naveed Chaudhry, a provincial PPP official, told a news conference up to 800 party activists had been arrested in Lahore. "The government doesn't want supporters of the party to receive Zardari at the airport," he said.

Zardari's release in November raised speculation Musharraf might try to improve relations with Bhutto's secular party, but Zardari and his supporters were then forcibly prevented from holding rallies.

Analysts say Musharraf might test the waters with Bhutto and other secular politicians, sidelined since he seized power in a 1999 coup, to bolster his power base and respond to critics who accuse him of stifling democracy.

Bhutto, prime minister for two terms in the 1980s and 1990s, has lived in self-imposed exile for fear of arrest on corruption charges since 1999 and Musharraf has in the past said she would not be allowed to return to politics.

"CLEAN BOWLED"

The government has not give permission for a welcome rally for Zardari and police said gatherings of four or more people would not be allowed.

"If they adopt the policy of confrontation then the Peoples Party will be clean bowled," Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told a news conference, using a cricketing term for defeated.

Among those detained in Lahore was president of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mian Misbah ur Rehman, a senior member of Bhutto's party, police said.

Bhutto's spokesman, Farhatullah Babur said the party would not be deterred and the rally would go ahead. "They have allowed other parties to hold rallies. How can they stop us?" he said.

The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, a six-party alliance of religious parties that have traditionally supported the military, has held anti-Musharraf rallies across Pakistan in recent months.

The action against the PPP did not rule out the possibility of some form of accommodation between Musharraf and Bhutto, political analysts say.

The arrests came as the cabinet approved legal reforms, which Bhutto's lawyer said could allow her to return from exile.

The draft reforms, aimed at making the justice system more transparent, include proposals to give women the automatic right to bail, except in cases of murder, terrorism, narcotics or robbery. (Additional reporting by Tahir Ikram in Islamabad)


http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL24640.htm

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Moderate political parties could be a source of opposition to the rule of General Musharraf. Political parties like the Pakistan’s Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz Faction (PML-N) which could win seats in the National Assembly even when their leaders were in exile can be a major opposition force if the leaders are back in the country.
http://www.observerindia.com/analysis/A169.htm

Pakistan’s Peoples Party (PPP)
Benazir Bhutto is in forced exile these days and her husband Asif Ali Zardari is in jail since November, 1996 facing bravely a number of cases engineered by Sharif Govt. as process of victimization, spurred by political vendetta.General Pervaiz Musharraf took over on Oct. 12, 1999 by removing corrupt and inept Government of Nawaz Sharif. In reply to a petition by Nawaz Sharif in the Supreme Court of Pakistan challenging Army's action of Oct. 12, 1999, the present regime stated that 1997 election were manipulated by Muslim League, thus vindicating the specific allegation by PPP. Today almost all political parties and leaders including some Nawaz Sharif Muslim Leaguers are anxiously awaiting a move by Ms. Benazir Bhutto and PPP. for the restoration of democracy. It is Benazir Bhutto and PPP who can put the economy and social and organizational structure of Pakistan on rail again and ensure masses food, shelter, education and health care and open avenues for job opportunities to the young men of Pakistan. She will choose her own timing for forcing the Military Junta to retreat and hand over power back to the people of Pakistan.
http://www.pakwatan.com/main/government/Political_parties.php3














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