Pakistanis await results
Counting began yesterday after an election in
Pakistan which was far less violent than feared. Millions of
Pakistanis defied bombings and shootings yesterday to vote in
critical parliamentary elections. Pervez Musharraf called for
reconciliation after casting his vote in the city of Rawalpindi,
where opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was
assassinated on December 27.
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Pakistan polls open amid violence, fraud fears
Pakistanis began voting Monday in critical
parliamentary elections overshadowed by violence and fears of
rigging, with the fate of key US ally President Pervez Musharraf
hanging in the balance.
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Indian troops kill twenty
Indian government troops scoured forests in
eastern India for Maoist rebels Monday and reported killing up to 20
of them since the militants launched a coordinated wave of attacks
on government targets late last week.
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New Thai PM unveils big spending plans
Thailand's newly elected Prime Minister Samak
Sundaravej on Monday unveiled an ambitious spending plan that he
said would shore up the kingdom's economy despite worries over a
global slowdown.
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