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Kiyani to be successor of Musharraf as army chief

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday, October 2, named Lt General Ashfaq Kiyani, Director General of the country’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), to be his successor as army chief.

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Fears of “Second Chechnya”

The scene at the entrance to Ingushetia’s second-largest town Karabulak is menacing. The traffic checkpoint has been reinforced and is now manned by federal troops in armoured vehicles.

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I could govern as prime minister: Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that suggestions he could head a future government as a prime minister were “quite realistic”.

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