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• Election violence, a good sign for Pakistans democracy?

  
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  Pakistan Elections 2013 Recent election violence inPakistan has been called unprecedented. But Pakistans 2008 elections werebloodier. The electoral death toll in this election has crossed 100, but in2008, over 150 were killed and 400 injured.  If Pakistans experience is likethat of other ...
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• Pakistans myth-busting election

  
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  Pakistan Elections 2013 Never in Pakistanscheckered electoral history has a parliamentary term been completed and a smoothtransition taken place in the capital, as well as the four provinces. The 2013elections are being held against a backdrop of dismal GDP growth (3.7 percent)and electricity ...
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• Your faith or your vote?

  
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  Pakistan Elections 2013 With just hours left before voters begin casting their votes for Pakistansnext leaders, political posters are plastered across markets, convoys ofmotorcycles and cars flying party flags clog major thoroughfares, and raspy-voicedcandidates make their final appeals to throngs ...
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• Four dead as election violence continues in Pakistan

  
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  Explosionsrock North Waziristan, Balochistan The deathtoll from election-related violence rose on Friday when two bombstargeting candidate offices exploded in Miran Shah, North Waziristan, killing 4and wounding 15 ( AP ,  Dawn ,  ET ).Multiple candidates have offices in the area where the attack occurred so it ...
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• “We don’t accept the system of infidels which is called democracy,” [Taliban leader Mulla] Mehsud claimed in the letter dated May 1.

  
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  Gunmen Kidnap Former Pakistan Prime Minister’s Son By Maxine Wally  A former Pakistani Prime Minister’s son was kidnapped Thursday, as attacks mount in lieu of the country’s upcoming elections. Yusuf Raza Gilani, member of the Pakistan People’s Party, was headed for a small political gathering in the ...
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• The treacherous road to Pakistans historic elections

  
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  Pakistan Elections 2013 Pakistans upcoming elections on May 11 provoke both fearand hope. The last time Pakistan held a reasonably free and fair election, in1970, the country ended up splitting into two, as Bangladesh emerged out of theruins of a horrible civil war that led to Indian military ...
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• The religious extremists will eventually fail because they have nothing to offer to a modern society but they will cause incalculable harm to Pakistan before finding their place in history’s dustbin.

  
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  Ominous signs By I.A Rehman THE day after tomorrow the people of Pakistan are likely to learn once again, among other things, the futility of efforts to establish a democratic order without efficient, democratic party apparatuse s. The party that is to suffer the most for lacking an effective party machine is ...
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• Afghan police forces accused of firing on civilians, killing 10

  
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  Bonus read: Peter Bergen and Bailey Cahall, "Terror threat from Gitmo prisoners is exaggerated" ( CNN ). Chaos in Kandahar Afghan police forces stand accused of killing 10 protesters and wounding 14 others after opening fire on a demonstration in Kandahar Provinces Maiwand District ( NYT ,  AP ,  Pajhwok ...
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• U.S. Kicks Drug-War Habit, Makes Peace With Afghan Poppies

  
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  The Army says Afghan poppies -- the source of much of the worlds heroin -- can be a "source of stability" for the war-ravaged country.
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• Can Pakistan legally shoot down U.S. drones?

  
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  Drones in Pakistan Pakistanselection hopefuls have expressed strong and vocal opposition to U.S. dronestrikes within the country. PakistanPeoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, who participated in a governmentthat visibly failed to do much to prevent drone strikes for five years, ...
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• At War Blog: Commander’s View of the Afghan Endgame

  
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  Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., center, at a ceremony near Kabul in March, marking the American transfer of Bagram Prison to Afghan control.
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• Commander’s View of the Afghan Endgame

  
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  Excerpts from an interview with Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the supreme military commander in Afghanistan, on the readiness of the Afghan security forces, his optimism that the Afghan Army will be a unifying force for the country, the Taliban’s tactics this summer and winning over the Afghan people.
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• Exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky on Pakistan elections

  
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  Noam Chomsky. — Photo by AFP/File By Ayyaz Mallick | DAWN.COM Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Noam Chomsky, is without doubt the most widely heard and read public intellectual alive today. Although trained in linguistics, he has written on and extensively critiqued a ...
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• Two bombings in northwest Pakistan claim four lives

  
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  The Brief Event notice: AuditingAfghanistan, a conversation with the Special Inspector General for AfghanistanReconstruction. TODAY, 12:15-1:45PM ( NAF ). Unabated Militant attacks continued in Pakistan on Wednesday, when asuicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the barrier ...
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• The mosque and the state

  
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  Pakistan Elections 2013 There seems to be somedisagreement between Pakistans extremists over participation in the May 11elections. Pakistani Taliban spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan recently toldPakistanis to boycott the elections because democracy is un-Islamic, whileMaulana Sami ul-Haq, a ...
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• 25 killed in blast at political rally in Pakistans tribal regions

  
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  Deadly politics At least 25 people were killed onMonday when a massive bomb tore through a political rally for Munir KhanOrakzai in the tribal agency of Kurram near the border with Afghanistan, in thelatest, and deadliest, attack of this election cycle ( NYT , Reuters , AP , ET ).  Unlike other attacks, ...
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• Wading into the quagmire

  
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  diplomacy in Afghanistan When Amb. James Dobbinsarrives at the ground-floor offices of the State Departments SpecialRepresentative for Afghanistan and Pakistan he will find a depleted staff, amoribund peace process and a mandate riddled with colossal diplomatic challenges.Secretary of State John ...
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• What Was Pervez Musharraf Thinking?

  
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  Pakistan Elections 2013 Itsbeen a rough month for Pervez Musharraf. Sincereturning to Pakistan on March 24 after several years of self-imposed exile, theformer president has been disqualified from participating in the May 11national election; arrested on multiple charges; and targeted by a car ...
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• Skirmishes erupt again on Afghan-Pakistan border

  
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  The Brief Border battles Clashes resumed along the contested Afghan-Pakistan borderon Monday after Pakistani troops returned to repair a gate adjacent to aPakistani border post between the Afghan province of Nangarhar and thePakistani tribal agency of Mohmand that was the site of last weeks ...
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• Prosecutor in Bhutto murder case and Mumbai terror attacks slain in Islamabad

  
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  The Brief Political violencecontinues Unidentified gunmen shot and killed Chaudhry Zulfikar, thelead prosecutor investigating the murder of former prime minister BenazirBhutto, as he drove to work on Friday in Islamabad ( AP , ET/Reuters , Dawn , NYT ).In addition to the Bhutto murder case, in ...
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