PAKISTAN: President's bid to head off constitutional crisis

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Updated September 18, 2007 20:09:33

Pakistan's government has declared that General Pervez Musharraf will sacrifice his powerful position as Armed Forces Chief once re-elected as President, early next month. The decision was announced to head off a constitutional crisis, as the judges of Pakistan's Supreme Court were already in session considering banning President Musharraf from holding both positions.

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