Interactive: Pakistan in turmoil
Updated on 15 November 2007
To many in the west, Pakistan is a vital bulwark in the fight against Islamic fundamentalism and the accompanying terrorist threat.
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Since the autumn of 2001, when Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, sided with the United States and its allies in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, Pakistan has become a regional forcus for the "war on terror" - subject to growing "talibanisation" yet also, in George Bush's words, "a major non-Nato ally".
Nuclear missile tests last December, the suspension of the country's top judge in March, followed in July by the Red Mosque siege, and then former premier Nawaz Sharif's failed return home and Benazir Bhutto's power grab, have all conspired to send the country into a state of political turmoil.
Click here to launch our interactive feature, including a timeline, and see how the situation in Pakistan continues to change almost by the day, ahead of promised elections in January 2008.
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