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World News: Pakistani emergency rule

StarTribune/AP: Police in Pakistan clash with lawyers protesting state of emergency; media in stranglehold
CNN: U.S. to Musharraf: Cut army ties

Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency rule this weekend. Pakistan has been under military rule for most of its 60-year history as a nation, and protests have broken out, but are mostly limited to activists and lawyers.

The main point of interest in the coverage is that the AP version of the story mainly focuses on the protests and the stranglehold on independent media. The CNN version writes as a speech story about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's speech, and presents it as the U.S. stand on the issue. The AP mentions this, but later in the article (in the 4th paragraph.)

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