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Pakistan in a Nutshell
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2007

DECEMBER

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf lifted emergency rule on December 16th and announced that general elections would take place on January 8, 2008 as planned.

NOVEMBER

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule.

OCTOBER

Musharraf sacked Pakistan's chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry.

Oct. 18
Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's former prime minister, returned to Pakistan after eight years living in self-imposed exile in hopes of leading her PPP party to victory in the January parliamentary elections. She was greeted by more 150,000 followers -- and a suicide bomber whose detonation killed more than 140 people. Bhutto accused Pakistan's President Musharraf of complicity in the attack, though many extremist groups in Pakistan would have liked to see her dead. Bhutto had made it clear that she planned to take on Pakistan's extremists if she came to power and even indicated that she would allow US forces to enter Pakistan to combat them if Pakistan's state of security deteriorated. There is question about her intended role in Pakistan: as a full-fledged opponent of Musharraf or sharing power with the president serving as prime minister.

Oct. 6
Pakistan's President Musharraf won the most votes in the country's presidential election. Pakistan's supreme court challenges the legality of his election.  Critics have called Musharraf's victory a "second coup" (Musharraf seized power in a coup in Pakistan in October 1999).

FEBRUARY

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney visited Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, in order to put pressure on President Pervez Musharraf to crack down on Islamic militants in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.

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