Tag: opposition leaders

This could prove interesting for the U.S.: Large-scale protests appear to have overthrown the government of Kyrgyzstan, an important American ally in Central Asia, after violence between riot police officers and opposition demonstrators on Thursday killed at least 17 people. The country’s president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, fled the capital, Bishkek, on his plane, and the opposition […]

The people in Pakistan elected a new leader, but Bush is trying to pressure the country into keeping Musharraf in power: The Bush administration is pressing the opposition leaders who defeated Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to allow the former general to retain his position, a move that Western diplomats and U.S. officials say could trigger […]