Papers debate crisis in Pakistan

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The political turmoil in Pakistan prompts much comment and coverage.

The Times believes President Musharraf's crackdown on his political opponents has brought the country to the brink of civil war.

The Guardian believes that diplomatic pressure by the United States and Britain for elections to be held within two months will go unheeded.

It says this is a second military coup, and it has exposed the inability of the US and Britain to control a key ally.

Rivers of blood

The Mirror says David Cameron should have sacked Conservative candidate Nigel Hastilow, in the wake of comments he made about immigration.

Mr Hastilow stood down after saying Enoch Powell was right to argue that immigration would change Britain.

The Telegraph leads with the warehouse fire in which one firefighter died and another three are still missing.

It believes the death toll may go higher because more bodies of migrant workers could be found inside.

Easy time

The Express continues to give prominence to the hunt for Madeleine McCann. It says a farm in Morocco's Rif Mountains is due to be searched.

The Mail reports a lorry driver given 150 hours community service was let off after probation chiefs claimed it could breach EU working hours limits.

They said the sentence would leave him too tired to drive his lorry safely.

The man, who was sentenced for a racist assault, tells the paper he was bewildered but happy at the verdict.

Golden boy

The Independent gives over most of its front page to rather an old story.

It carries a picture of the boy king, Tutankhamen, stripped of his golden mask. But it seems he could have done with the services of an orthodontist.

The Times says the go-ahead has been given for what it calls a "wind farm" under the sea which will provide electricity for 5,000 homes.

Eight underwater turbines are to be installed on the sea bed off St David's peninsular in Pembrokeshire.