[lbo-talk] Karachi demo for civil law

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Mon Apr 16 14:58:26 PDT 2007


Reuters.com

Mon 16 Apr 2007

News > Video http://www.reuters.com/news/video

Karachi demo for civil law http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=48727

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Apr. 16 - Pakistanis resist radical Islamists in Islamabad who threaten to take the law into their own hands.

Moderates and liberals, fearful that the ways of the Taliban are creeping into Pakistan's cities, have criticized President Pervez Musharraf for not taking a harder line. But he appears wary of handing any issue to Islamists in an election year, and the government is trying to negotiate a peaceful settlement with the Islamist hardliners in Lal Masjid Benet Allen reports.



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