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/ 10 January 2007
India’s new Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee is expected in Pakistan on Saturday for talks that are likely to show that a three-year-old peace process is on track. It is more than 15 months since the last visit by an Indian foreign minister to Islamabad, and while Mukherjee was only appointed in October, the Pakistani leadership know him well from his previous job as defence minister.
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/ 17 November 2006
A British man who spent 18 years in a Pakistani jail for a murder he says he didn’t commit, was released on Friday, the Pakistani interior minister said. President Pervez Musharraf commuted Mirza Tahir Hussain’s death sentence on Wednesday after the British government and rights groups had pleaded for clemency for the 36-year-old from Leeds.
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/ 15 November 2006
Pakistan’s lower house of Parliament voted on Wednesday to put the crime of rape under the civil penal code, curtailing the scope of Islamic laws that rights groups have long criticised as unfair to women. The Women’s Protection Bill was seen as a barometer of President Pervez Musharraf’s commitment to his vision of ”enlightened moderation”.