Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Igor Dunjic-Duke Newsgroups: sci.math,japan.anime.pretty,japan.chacha-jokes,rec.gambling.poker,rec.travel.europe Subject: Milenko Kindl Cvrcko fjwerfijif[ejf Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:35:42 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 49 Message-ID: <1194222942.336940.63410@v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.153.16.66 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1194222942 26005 127.0.0.1 (5 Nov 2007 00:35:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 00:35:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 localhost:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE5-20040508) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=122.153.16.66; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Xref: news.ccsf.jp japan.anime.pretty:13299 japan.chacha-jokes:15795 Milenko Kindl ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan braced for protests against emergency rule on Monday, while President Pervez Musharraf faced mounting pressure from the United States to hold parliamentary elections in January. ADVERTISEMENT Declaring an emergency on Saturday, General Musharraf cited spiraling militancy and hostile judges to justify his action. Police detained opposition figures and lawyers -- between 400 and 500 according to Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz -- and placed reporting curbs on the media to stifle the risk of outrage spilling on to the streets. Musharraf, who seized power in a coup in 1999, also suspended the constitution. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed disappointment with Musharraf in terms seldom heard before from U.S. officials more accustomed to praising the Pakistani leader's support in the battle against al Qaeda. "The United States has never put all of its chips on Musharraf," Rice said, urging Pakistan to get back on the road to democracy, and warning U.S. aid to its ally was under review. Washington has given Islamabad around $10 billion over the last five years. Despite the detentions, a lawyers' movement that led the fight against Musharraf when he tried to sack the country's top judge earlier this year, was planning protests in front of courts in most major cities. Lawyers, journalists, opposition politicians, and ordinary Pakistanis said they believed Musharraf's main motive in declaring emergency rule was to pre-empt the Supreme Court invalidating his re-election as president last month. "Many people in Pakistan believe that it has nothing to do with stopping terrorism, and it has everything to do with stopping a court verdict that was coming against him," former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said on Sunday. The Court had been due to reconvene on Monday to determine Musharraf's right to have stood for re-election while still army chief. But judges, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, have been sacked and all proceedings cancelled this week.