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This doesn't look good. I wonder if this has anything to do with the return of Bhutto to the country?
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article3129652.ece
US threatens to withhold aid as Pakistan swings from democracy to dictatorship
Elections due to take place in Pakistan in a matter of weeks could be postponed by a year, the government has announced, and it said 500 people had been detained at gunpoint after General Pervez Musharraf suspended the country's constitution and imposed martial law.
Dozens of other political opponents were on the run – among them the former cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan – and human rights activists were rounded up as the authorities sought pre-emptively to stamp out opposition to General Musharraf's move to sack and arrest seven Supreme Court judges and invoke a state of emergency. The judges, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, were under house arrest while television channels remained off the air.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article3129652.ece
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