Pakistan has announced to lift up the Emergency posed up last week, within a period of one month and allowed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto free from house arrest, as the country sought Saturday to restore its battered image at home and abroad.
The week-old emergency was held by Pakistan to help fight Islamic extremists who control large swathes of territory near the Afghan border, insisted the President Gen. Parvez Musharraf.
Deepening the country’s political crisis at a time when a violent Islamist insurgency is gaining ground, tensions between Pakistan’s two most influential political leaders are close to boiling over.
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