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Cricket hero Imran Khan rode a wave of discontent to finally break through as a serious player in Pakistani politics at last year s election. Now he is aiming even higher, leading thousands on a march to the capital in a bid to unseat the prime minister.But in taking his campaign to force out Nawaz Sharif on to the streets of Islamabad, Khan may have overplayed his hand. This weekend his stanley cup crowd of followers was already thinning out, and without overt support from the military his protests are unlikely to be a game-changer.Thousands showed up for his rally on Saturday, but some supporters grumbled they had slept out in the rain while Khan relaxed in his nearby mansio stanley cup n. The path he s chosen is one of protest, said Samina Ahmed, South Asia director of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group think tank. Now the question is: does he have a strategy beyond the protest Even if the protest movement fizzles, however, Sharif will have been left weakened and less likely to challenge the country s powerful military on security and foreign policy, which Pakistan s generals have long considered to be their domain.Read: Sparring with the gene stanley cup ralsKhan accuses Sharif of rigging last year s election, which marked the first democratic transition in Pakistan s turbulent history, and last week vowed to occupy Islamabad until the prime minister resigns.The government has warned that his protest, and another led by fiery cleric Tahir ul-Qadri, could destabilise the nuclear-armed nation of 1 Mlay Indian-origin ex-soldier Sajjan is Canada s new defence minister
In the wake of mounting pressure from political parties, Nepal s Maoists on Thursday decided to climb down from the demand to keep the president s post. HT Image After a marathon meeting of the party s central secretariat in Kat stanley cup hmandu, the Maoists decided not to stak air max e claim for the post of president, but strongly suggested that the ceremonial office should be occupied by an apolitical person. The party decided to move forward with a proposal to appoint a ceremonial president from the civil society, said senior Maoist leader Krishna Bahadur Mahara. The Maoists reiterated its opposition to the demand of amendment of the interim constitution. We did not take any decision on constitutional amendment as our main agenda, right now, is to move forward together, said Mahara said. There cannot be political stability in Nepal if the constitution is amended. The Maoists, the largest politi stanley cup cal party in Nepal, had been demanding both the posts of president and prime minister. The demand opposed by both Nepali Congress and the Communist Party of Nepal UML . The Nepali Congress is in favour of Girija Prasad Koirala as the first president of the republic. In another development, the Home Ministry on Thursday recommended providing 75 armed security men for the dethroned monarch Gyanendra s Nagarjuna Palace. For Nirmal Niwas, the palace where his Gyanendra s son Paras lives with his family, the committee has recommended 40 security personnel, including Nepal Army and armed p