Photo: #Pakistani riot police scuffle with activists of the fundamentalist party Jamaat-i-Islami during an anti-Musharraf demonstration in Peshawar, November 2007.
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Pakistani riot police scuffle with activists of the fundamentalist party Jamaat-i-Islami during an anti-Musharraf demonstration in Peshawar, November 2007. (TARIQ MAHMOOD/AFP/Getty Images)

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Unrest in Pakistan

Broadcast: Midmorning, 11/09/2007, 9:06 a.m.

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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has promised to hold parliamentary elections by February. Meanwhile, the army is arresting members of the main opposition party of Benazir Bhutto, in an attempt to thwart a planned protest rally.

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  • Sumit Ganguly: Professor of political science and director of research at the Center for American and Global Security at Indiana University.
  • Moeed Yusuf: Director of Strategic Studies at the Strategic and Economic Policy Research Organization, an Islamabad-based think tank.

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