Information Minister, Pakistan
Pakistani Minister of Information
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Tariq Azim Khan
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FROM Tariq Azim Khan
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Turmoil in Pakistan Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharaf suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry on charges of abusing his office - only to face massive protests . In two days of clashes and gunbattles, forty people were killed. Today, about three-thousand lawyers, opposition activists, and civil rights campaigners were back on the streets of Lahore.
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