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Pakistan party asks govt to change policy or quit By Tahir Ikram TIMERGARA, Pakistan, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Pakistan's largest Islamic party said on Thursday it will launch a campaign to force the military government either to revise its support for U.S.-led attacks on neighbouring Afghanistan or give up power. "If the government does not change its support to America we have the right to pull down the unconstitutional government of (General) Pervez Musharraf," Jamaat-i-Islami party leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed told a gathering of a several thousand tribal members near the Afghan border. "We are going to hold rallies in all major Pakistani cities with the demand that the government change its policy," he told a cheering but disciplined crowd in this tribal rim bordering Afghanistan. |
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