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Kumaratunga moots LTTE-inclusive national panel
Colombo: In a new suggestion to broad-base Sri Lanka's peace process, now confined to the government and Tamil Tiger rebels, President Chandrika Kumaratunga on November 12 proposed a 'national commission for ethnic reconciliation and sustainable peace' that includes the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), while regretting the anti-Tamil riots that broke out nearly two decades ago in the island nation.
US 'uncomfortable' if MMA assumes power in Pak
Islamabad: The US has communicated its difficulties to the Musharraf government in establishing a smooth working relationship with Pakistan if the umbrella alliance of religious parties dominated the new elected government.
Musharraf may broker a deal with political parties
Islamabad: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf may step in and broker a deal with political parties to tide over a crisis even as influential religious parties have said that they would support him in a future government if he quit his post as the Army chief and ratify his position through a Constitutionally demanded election process.
Polls not held under new Constitution: Pak SC
Islamabad: In a significant ruling, Pakistan Supreme Court has held that the October 10 polls in the country were not conducted as per the newly amended Constitution of President Pervez Musharraf but they took place under the election laws of 2002.
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