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| Pakistan 'to keep elections date' | |
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| Pakistan's prime minister says national elections will be held as scheduled, despite President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule. | Pakistan's prime minister says national elections will be held as scheduled, despite President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule. |
| Elections are planned for mid-January, but there were fears they might be abandoned amid the crisis. | Elections are planned for mid-January, but there were fears they might be abandoned amid the crisis. |
| Police have broken up street protests and hundreds of lawyers and opposition activists have been arrested. | Police have broken up street protests and hundreds of lawyers and opposition activists have been arrested. |
| The US said it was "deeply disturbed" by events and urged Gen Musharraf to return to civilian rule. | |
| Gen Musharraf said he had declared the emergency to stop Pakistan "committing suicide", because the country was in a crisis caused by militant violence and an unruly judiciary. | |
| Critics, however, believe Gen Musharraf was acting to pre-empt a judgment by the Supreme Court on whether his re-election last month was legal. | |
| Dissolved | |
| The government had suggested parliamentary polls could be delayed by up to a year. | |
| But Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Monday that: "The next general elections will be held according to the schedule." | |
| Attorney-General Malik Abdul Qayyum was more specific. | |
| "It has been decided there will be no delay in the election and by 15 November these assemblies will be dissolved and the election will be held within the next 60 days," he told Reuters news agency. |