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President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan is weathering a political crisis after he suspended the chief justice of the supreme court for transparently trumped-up reasons.(The Week)(Brief article)

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* President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan is weathering a political crisis after he suspended the chief justice of the supreme court for transparently trumped-up reasons. It is bruited about that Musharraf may suffer an ouster like that of the shah of Iran, and some suggest we dump the general for a civilian government. But, as Daniel Markey argues in a persuasive piece in Foreign Affairs, the military is the strongest institution in the country and will inevitably have an outsized say in how it is governed, Musharraf or ...

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