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Politics in Pakistan heats up – Mush in pact with Bhutto, Baloch separatists ready for offensive, Islamist political challenges Mush!
Pakistan is generating a lot of political heat internally. Musharraf made silent and secret deal with PPP leader Benazir Bhutto. Separatists are ready for serious offensive in southwestern Pakistan's Balochistan province. Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) alliance of six Islamist political parties is in serious confrontation with the Musharraf Government with defiance and strike in their card!
In the middle of all these, it is clear that people of Pakistan want peace and prosperity with India and share the glory of success in trade, outsourcing and high tech feel good effect. According sources in Pakistan, people of Pakistan wants democracy but not at the cost of instability and corruption.
According to media reports, Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said that she recently met with Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in Saudi Arabia. Bhutto said she hoped to return to Pakistan after the restoration of democracy and ruled out agitation against Musharraf's rule.
Pakistani police have arrested hundreds of supporters of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) alliance of six Islamist political parties. The arrests occurred just before a national strike planned for April 2 to pressure President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to resign. About 1,500 MMA supporters have been arrested in Karachi, and dozens more in Lahore, police and opposition officials said.
A bomb damaged an underground natural gas pipeline in southwestern Pakistan's Balochistan province near the town of Dadhar, said Amir Mohammad Dotani, an official with state-owned Sui Southern Gas Co. Dadhar is about 60 miles southeast of the provincial capital of Quetta. Local ethnic militants demanding economic and political autonomy from Pakistan’s central government have carried out similar attacks in the past.
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