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...army chief, Pervez Musharraf, removed Nawaz from office in a bloodless coup in 1999 after Nawaz tried to limit the power of the military. Nawaz was tried and convicted on charges of air piracy after he refused to let the plane carrying Musharraf, who had been abroad, land in Pakistan during the last hours of his presidency...
...decision, but we commiserate," says Farahnaz Ispahani, a presidential spokeswoman. "This is not what we sought from our policy of reconciliation." The charges against the Sharifs, she adds, were not introduced by the present government but by former President Pervez Musharraf, after he toppled Nawaz Sharif in a bloodless coup in 1999. (One of the charges that led to Sharif's disqualification was his alleged role in the 1999 hijacking of a plane bearing Musharraf, then head of the army and increasingly a rival for power.) But the Sharifs and their lawyers allege that Zardari played a direct role. "Asif...
...western film and fiction, Hong Kong is a fabulously implausible place of strong-jawed Caucasian protagonists and their sinewy Chinese sidekicks. They are pitted in urgent struggles against bloodless communists or mustachioed triads with a penchant for quoting Confucian maxims. Willowy Eurasian sirens in brocade skirts set honey traps at every turn, and the duplicitous locals care for nothing but share-trading and cognac. Great events - a devastating typhoon, a transfer of sovereignty - provide epoch-shifting denouements to stories of unsurpassed venality...
...make publicly broadcast phone calls to supporters around the clock to urge them to fight a coup. "If a coup is staged, Thaksin will fight against it along side with Thais. He can make phone calls to us 24 hours a day," Natthawut said. Thaksin was ousted in a bloodless coup in 2006, but later returned to Thailand earlier this year after elections were held...
...Thaksin, who was ousted in a September 2006 bloodless coup, has been convicted in a Thai court of conflict of interest over a land deal he approved while prime minister and was sentenced in absentia last month to two years in jail. The former prime minister, who insists that he is innocent and that the courts are under the control of his enemies, has fled Thailand and was last reported to be in Dubai...