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SOUTHASIANET	SOUTHASIANET
Dated: 16-02-2008	Dated: 11-02-2008
Pakistan’s Troubled Electoral History	Ideology: Clergy holds War on Terror Responsible for Terrorism
PIPS Report Pakistan has yet to settle several basic constitutional questions. Other than the role of the military in politics, Islam, ethnicity, provincial autonomy...more	Pakistani religious scholars, mostly the Deobandis, have suggested that President Musharraf should step down...more

SOUTHASIANET		SOUTHASIANET
Dated: 02-02-2008		Dated: 24-01-2008
Election 2008: PIPS Survey Challenges Conventional Wisdom		Election 2008: Political Disintegration in Balochistan
ISLAMABAD: They may use transport provided by an election candidate to go to polling stations, but Pakistani voters use their own mind when casting the ballot...more		Safdar Sial Politics in Balochistan has mostly remained in the grip of tribal elders and nationalist parties. In Baloch tribal areas the Sardars and Nawabs are in actual fact the political parties and they serve as engines of political vehicle...more

SOUTHASIANET	SOUTHASIANET
Dated: 07-01-2008	Dated: 28-01-2008
PIPS Security Report 2007: 1442 Attacks/Clashes took 3448 Lives	Elections 2008: Benazir Factor May Affect the Results
Security situation in Pakistan during 2007 remained highly unsatisfactory amid terrorist attacks throughout the year...more	SAN Report The assassination of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairperson Benazir Bhutto is likely to have far reaching impact on the results of 2008 elections...more
SOUTHASIANET - Pakistan	SOUTHASIANET
Dated: 28-12-2007	Dated: 05-02-2008
Benazir’s Death Serves Whose Agenda?	Kashmir: APHC Needs to Be United
Safdar Sial What is more tragic in reality than the Shakespearean tragedy in fiction can be seen with wide-open eyes and bleeding heart in the ‘political’ history of Pakistan...more	SAN Report The All Parties Hurriat Conference (APHC) is marking its 15th birthday amid serious divide between its two factions that ironically continue to carry the same name...more