'Black Day' Declared As Musharraf Heads for Another Five-Year Term

Birmingham Post › October 01, 2007

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Pakistani journalists marked yesterday as a "black day" to condemn police beatings during opposition protests against President Gen Pervez Musharraf's pursuit of another five-year term.

Musharraf picked up a key legal victory yesterday when the Election Commission declared him a qualified candidate for the October 6 vote - as lawyers and opposition activists staged protests in front of the commission building in the capital, Islamabad.

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'Black Day' Declared As Musharraf Heads for Another Five-Year Term

Protesters clashed with police, who wielded batons and fired tear gas to disperse them before ...

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