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Ex-PM Sharif drops plan to boycott Pakistan elections
Summary from United States, from articles in multiple languages
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On a Mideast trip now overshadowed by the unfolding crisis in nuclear-armed Pakistan, Rice indicated the U.S. would not suspend aid wholesale. (article 6)
The U.S. has provided about $11 billion to Pakistan since 2001, when President Pervez Musharraf allied his presidency with Washington after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. (article 6)
He had not spoken directly with Musharraf as of Sunday afternoon, said Bush's national security spokesman , Gordon Johndroe. (article 6)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 9 - The two main opposition parties led by Benazir Bhutto and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said they would participate in Jan. 8 parliamentary elections, despite deep misgivings about whether the vote could be free and fair. (article 1)
Sharif, the former prime minister who returned from exile two weeks ago but has been barred from running himself, would marshal his party to participate in elections, said Ahsan Iqbal (article 1)
Sharif had called for a boycott of the election to protest the continued rule of Musharraf who imposed a state of emergency on Nov. 3, suspending the Constitution and dismissing the Supreme Court. (article 1)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A month after emergency rule was imposed, the gate to deposed Supreme Court Judge Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday's house remains locked. (article 5)
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musharraf, Pakistan, Sharif, elections, boycott |
Source articles
- Opposition to Take Part in Pakistan Elections (nytimes.com, 12/10/2007, 834 words)
- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- The party of former Pr... (hosted.ap.org, 12/09/2007, 648 words)
- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- The party of former Pr... (hosted.ap.org, 12/09/2007, 648 words)
- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- The party of former Pr... (hosted.ap.org, 12/09/2007, 648 words)
- In Pakistan, judges still confined - (baltimoresun.com, 12/09/2007, 1015 words)
- Rice: US Will Review Aid to Pakistan (Washington Post, 12/10/2007, 339 words)
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