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Pakistan: election fever

16/02/2008
Pakistan goes to the polls on Monday, elections that were postponed after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto last December. If opinion polls are anything to go by, then it seems that Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party will win the parliamentary elections. In a survey published in Pakistan's leading English language newspaper Dawn, 70% of Pakistanis want President Pervez Musharraf to quit.

Kosovo's independence   Read Transcript

09/02/2008
Kosovo has been run by the United Nations since 1999, when NATO intervened to solve the brutal ethnic conflict between Serbian forces and ethnic Albanian separatists. In the next ten days Kosovo's leadership is likely to unilaterally declare independence, in defiance of the Serbs who have wanted Kosovo to remain part of Serbia. So could an independent Kosovo lead to a major crisis?

Benazir Bhutto

05/01/2008
Saturday Extra's Geraldine Doogue recorded this interview with Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto seven months before her death. In it, the former prime minister discusses her reasons for returning to her homeland to fight the election.

Punters v pollsters

05/01/2008
The federal election dominated the media for much of 2007 and promoted a febrile industry of speculation among the pollsters and punters. But can the bookies tell us things about voter intentions that the pollsters cannot? This interview was first broadcast in 2007.