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Obama and Mushareff - Presidential Politics Collide

Obama and Mushareff - Presidential Politics Collide

(August 16, 2007) Pakistan's President Mushareff is having a bad year - an Islamist uprising, a restive pro-democracy movement, a challenge from the Supreme Court. He didn't need Barak Obama threatening to attack Pakistan. US Presidential candidate Obama's comment got noticed around the world; Pakistan's likely Presidential candidate Mushareff responded in words as well as deeds.

SOURCES: ABC News and NBC News, U.S.; CCTV, China; South Asia Newsline, India; Deutche Welle, Germany; Al Jazeera English, Qatar; Alalam and Press TV, Iran.

Obama and Mushareff - Presidential Politics Collide

(August 16, 2007) Pakistan's President Mushareff is having a bad year - an Islamist uprising, a restive pro-democracy movement, a challenge from the Supreme Court. He didn't need Barak Obama threatening to attack Pakistan. US Presidential candidate Obama's comment got noticed around the world; Pakistan's likely Presidential candidate Mushareff responded in words as well as deeds.

SOURCES: ABC News and NBC News, U.S.; CCTV, China; South Asia Newsline, India; Deutche Welle, Germany; Al Jazeera English, Qatar; Alalam and Press TV, Iran.

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