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    ATC rejects plea of Musharraf’s wife

    http://dawn.com/2013/03/03/ex-presid...sharrafs-wife/

    RAWALPINDI: Only a few weeks before the possible return to country of former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf, an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday rejected the application filed by his wife against declaring her husband a proclaimed offender in Benazir Bhutto murder case.

    The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in February 2011 had implicated the former president in the Benazir murder case and on February 12 ATC Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed issued non-bailable warrants of arrest of Mr Musharraf after his failure to appear before the court.

    In May 2011, the same judge declared him a proclaimed offender and on June 11 he issued perpetual warrants for his arrest.

    On August 27, ATC Judge Shahid Rafique ordered for confiscation of moveable and immovable properties of Mr Musharraf and seized his 11 bank accounts.

    The court had proceeded under Section 88 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) for the attachment of the properties — a farmhouse in Chak Shahzad, a plot in Singhar Housing Colony, Gwadar, and bank accounts mentioned in a letter of the State Bank of Pakistan dated June 23, 2011.

    Through her lawyer Sehba Musharraf in September 2011 challenged the court order declaring her husband a proclaimed offender and requested the release of the attached properties.

    During the hearing, her lawyer Ilyas Siddiqui told the court that Musharraf had been declared a proclaimed offender in a hasty manner while he was abroad for some important engagements.

    It had been settled by the apex court that a person could not be declared absconder under Section 87 of the CrPC if he had already left the country, he added.

    He claimed that all the proceedings against Gen Musharraf were unlawful, without jurisdiction and against the principle of natural justice.

    Mr Siddiqui pointed out that Islamabad High Court in October last year had admitted the petition for regular hearing regarding the ownership of the Chak Shahzad farmhouse and the court, after hearing the arguments of Mrs Musharraf’s lawyer, had issued a stay order in this matter.

    According to the petition, Gen Musharraf resigned from the office of the president on August 18, 2008, and remained involved in social and family engagements till March, 2009. He kept travelling in and out of Pakistan and during all this time not a word was uttered by anybody about his involvement in the high-profile murder case.

    It said the court committed an error wherein the titles of the above referred properties were not examined carefully. As a matter of fact, the farmhouse in Chak Shahzad belonged to the petitioner and the order for their attachment was liable to be withdrawn on this ground.

    Out of the 11 bank accounts four were joint accounts and the court could not freeze these accounts, he added.

    FIA’s special prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali told the court that freezing of the 11 bank accounts was legal as Mrs Musharraf was a housewife, and was dependent on her husband.

    He said that Gen (retd) Musharraf owned Rs110 million in 11 bank accounts, including four joint accounts and being a housewife it was not possible for Ms Musharraf to arrange such a huge amount on her own, adding that during the hearing her lawyer never disclosed her own source of income.

    He pointed out that being a proclaimed offender Gen Musharraf would not be entitled for any relief unless he surrendered before any court of competent jurisdiction.

    He contended that Mrs Musharraf was seeking relief for a fugitive and in the light of various judgments of superior judiciary her petition was not maintainable.

    Chaudhry Zulfiqar told Dawn that Gen Musharraf would be arrested on arrival before or after the formation of a caretaker set-up. He said the ATC had issued perpetual warrants for his arrest and he could not evade the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) which demanded his immediate arrest.

    According to him, Gen Musharraf would be treated in accordance with the relevant sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 and after his arrest he would be produced before the court.

    He, however, said the former president would avoid an arrest if he managed to obtain a protective/transitory bail from any high court.
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    Musharraf will be arrested as soon as he returns: Prosecutor

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    Islamabad, Mar 4: A top Pakistani prosecutor has said that former military ruler Pervez Musharraf will be arrested as soon as he returns to Pakistan from self-exile as an anti-terrorism court has issued “perpetual warrants” for him.

    Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali, a special prosecutor for the Federal Investigation Agency, said Musharraf would be arrested irrespective of whether he returned to Pakistan before or after the formation of a caretaker government to oversee the next general election.

    Musharraf had announced last week that he intends to return to Pakistan a week after the installation of the interim administration to lead his party in the polls.

    The Pakistan Peoples Party-led government will complete its term on March 16 and the caretaker set-up is expected to be formed the same day.

    Ali told the media that the anti-terrorism court had issued perpetual warrants for Musharraf and he could not evade the Criminal Procedure Code, which demanded his immediate arrest.

    The court issued the warrants and declared Musharraf a “proclaimed offender” or fugitive after he refused to cooperate with investigators probing the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto.

    Prosecutors have accused Musharraf of failing to provide adequate security to Bhutto when she returned to Pakistan from self-exile in 2007.

    As a fugitive, Musharraf will not be entitled to any relief unless he surrenders to a court of competent jurisdiction.

    Musharraf will be treated in accordance with relevant sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 and produced in the anti-terrorism court after his arrest, Ali said.

    Musharraf would be able to avoid arrest if he obtains protective or transitory bail from any High Court, Ali said.

    In a separate development, disgraced nuclear scientist A Q Khan has said that Musharraf will be sent to prison as soon he lands on Pakistani soil.

    Khan told the media yesterday that Musharraf would languish in prison for a long period of time “before he is hanged like a convict murderer”.

    “I am sure that he would be handed over to Balochistan authorities immediately after returning home (for) the assassination of Nawab Muhammad Akbar Bugti,” Khan said.

    Musharraf has “no future as a free man” as he “spent a sinful and criminal life in Pakistan”, he claimed.

    Musharraf was in power when Khan admitted to running a secret nuclear proliferation ring in 2004.

    Khan was later placed under house arrest though the current government has removed many of the restrictions that were imposed on him.
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    Musharraf granted protective bail in Benazir, Bugti cases

    http://dawn.com/2013/03/22/shc-grant...otective-bail/

    3/24/2013

    KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday granted General (retd) Pervez Musharraf’s request for protective bail in various cases pending against him, DawnNews reported. The cases in which the former military ruler has been granted bail include the Benazir Bhutto murder case, the case on the killing of Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Bugti and one pertaining to the deposing of Supreme Court judges.

    The court moreover directed the former president to submit bail money amounting to rupees 100,000 in each case.

    The 14-day-long protective bail was approved in response to a constitutional petition filed in the SHC by Musharraf’s daughter Ayla Raza on behalf of her father. The petition requested the court for protective bail so that the former ruler could appear in the trial court to defend himself.

    The petition said Musharraf planned to return to the country but apprehended arrest for his alleged involvement in different cases, including Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, Akbar Bugti’ murder and the Lal Masjid operation case in which scores were killed.

    Musharraf, who seized power in 1999 and left the country after stepping down in 2008, has vowed to return home on Sunday to contest the May 11 general election, but is wanted in Pakistan for conspiracy to murder and illegally arresting judges.
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    Musharraf banned from leaving Pakistan

    http://www.thehindu.com/news/interna...cle4564548.ece

    3/30/2013

    Former military dictator Pervez Musharraf was placed on the Exit Control List (ECL) by the Federal Investigation Agency on Saturday. The decision came a day after the Sindh High Court restrained him from leaving the country without permission.

    Gen. Musharraf faces arrest in three high profile cases: The assassinations of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and former Chief Minister of Balochistan Akbar Bugti, and the illegal confinement of scores of superior judges including the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in 2007.

    The former army chief’s daughter Ayla Raza applied for bail in all three cases just before his scheduled arrival in the country from self-exile on March 24. Bail was granted on March 22 and Gen. Musharraf landed in Karachi as planned.

    He now plans to contest the upcoming National Assembly elections from three places: Islamabad, Karachi and Chitral.
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    Musharraf Is Arrested on Range of Charges in Pakistan

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/wo...nted=all&_r=1&

    By DECLAN WALSH
    Published: April 19, 2013

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former military leader, was arrested and taken into police custody on Friday — a move that was unprecedented in a country where the military has held sway for decades, and one that showed the determination of the judiciary to hold him accountable for his time in power.

    A day after Mr. Musharraf fled a courtroom in dramatic circumstances to his fortified villa on the edge of the capital, Islamabad, the police took him to court in the central part of the city, where a magistrate placed him under arrest. Hours later, after briefly returning home, he was taken to the city police headquarters, where he was being held pending his next court appearance on charges relating to his battle with the country’s top judges while in office.

    The travails of Mr. Musharraf, 69, a former army chief, furthered the humiliation of a figure who enjoyed absolute power in Pakistan for much of his rule, from 1999 to 2008. But it also raised new questions about why he returned to the country in the first place.

    Little has gone well for Mr. Musharraf since he returned last month from four years of self-imposed exile, spent mostly in London and Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. Shortly after his arrival, a critic flung a shoe at him in public. Since then he has been mostly confined to his villa, protected by a sizable security contingent guarding against the possibility of an attack by the Taliban, who have threatened to kill him.

    Mr. Musharraf’s fledgling political party, the All Pakistan Muslim League, failed to gain traction, and on Tuesday, the national election commission disqualified him from running for Parliament in elections scheduled for May 11. Until the drama of recent days, the news media had largely ignored him. Even his former comrades in the military appear to privately view him as more of a liability than an asset.

    “Musharraf obviously overestimated his popularity,” Raza Rumi, a political analyst, said in an interview. “He was delusional in thinking he could ride out the storm, and he underestimated the resolve of the judges.”

    “There are certainly people in urban Pakistan who think that things were better during his tenure,” Mr. Rumi added. “But the majority do not find him a credible leader. He ruled on the strength of his uniform. Now that uniform is gone, and Pakistan has changed.”

    By late Friday, Mr. Musharraf was being detained on the grounds of the Islamabad police headquarters, in a guesthouse that is normally used to house visiting police officers. In a statement, a spokesman for Mr. Musharraf attributed his woes to “segments of overzealous judiciary, unscrupulous lawyers and fictitious petitioners” who were conspiring to prevent him from being elected.

    The current case against Mr. Musharraf centers on his decision to dismiss and place under house arrest Pakistan’s top judges in November 2007, when he declared emergency rule in a bid to shore up his crumbling authority.

    Separately, he faces charges in relation to the murders of Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister, and Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, a nationalist leader of Baluchistan Province.

    And some critics are even calling for him to be tried for high treason, a charge that carries a mandatory death penalty.

    The Supreme Court is hearing arguments about whether treason charges can be filed, although it appears that little can happen without the acquiescence of the current caretaker government.

    That interim administration, which has little political weight, has tried hard to distance itself from the case, apparently preferring that the matter be taken up by the next elected government.

    Ahmer Bilal Soof, the interim law minister, said the legal developments against Mr. Musharraf were taking place “hour by hour.” The Interior Ministry will submit a statement on the treason charges to the Supreme Court on Monday, he added.

    Aides have portrayed Mr. Musharraf as relaxed, saying he had been smoking cigars at his villa since his dramatic courtroom dash on Thursday.

    But that unflappable image was challenged on Friday when he returned to the Islamabad court, stone-faced and surrounded by tight security.

    In a statement, Mr. Musharraf criticized the charges as “politically motivated” and vowed to fight them in court, “where the truth will eventually prevail.”

    The United States government, which became closely allied with Mr. Musharraf after the September 2001 terrorist attacks, moved to distance itself from him. In a statement, the American Embassy in Islamabad stressed that it took “no position” on Mr. Musharraf or the legal proceedings against him.

    Mr. Musharraf’s hopes for a political comeback now appear to be in shreds. He may have come home because he “hasn’t made his peace with being an ex-dictator,” Cyril Almeida, a columnist with Dawn, a Pakistani newspaper, said in an interview.

    “Once one of the most famous statesmen on Planet Earth, he probably misses the power and the limelight terribly,” he said.

    Mr. Musharraf’s case has shaken the country’s political system at a delicate time. The sight of a former military leader being hauled through the courts is a striking image in Pakistan, where generals have ruled for about half of the country’s 66-year history.

    No former military leader has ever been prosecuted in court for his actions while in power, although one, Gen. Yahya Khan, was placed under informal house detention for much of the 1970s after he lost the civil conflict that resulted in Pakistan’s eastern wing seceding to become Bangladesh.

    Now Mr. Musharraf is partly at the mercy of his nemesis, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, whom Mr. Musharraf fired in 2007, setting off street protests that eventually led to his ouster.

    Under Chief Justice Chaudhry, the Supreme Court has aggressively asserted its authority over the last year, having one prime minister fired and taking to task senior retired generals for their actions in rigging previous elections.

    The country’s political leaders, including Nawaz Sharif, the opposition leader who is the favorite to become the next prime minister, have remained conspicuously silent about Mr. Musharraf.

    Although Mr. Sharif had previously demanded that Mr. Musharraf face treason charges, he is believed to have come under pressure from the government of Saudi Arabia, which quietly wields considerable influence in Pakistan, to leave Mr. Musharraf, a retired four-star general, alone.

    Many analysts view the prospect of treason charges with trepidation, fearing that they could prompt a more aggressive military role.

    “Pakistan needs to punish people who abrogate the Constitution, but it must not be personalized,” Mr. Rumi said. “A whole crew of civilian and military personalities were involved in the process. Justice can only be done if all of them are taken to task.”
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    Musharraf arrested, kept in police HQ

    http://dawn.com/2013/04/19/musharraf...ears-in-court/

    ISLAMABAD: General (retd) Pervez Musharraf was shifted to the police headquarters in Islamabad from his farmhouse residence at Chak Shahzad on Friday, hours after the former military ruler surrendered himself to the authorities in the judges’ detention case.

    He surrendered himself earlier today before appearing in the court of judicial magistrate Raja Abbas Shah in Islamabad.

    The judge issued an order for a two-day-long transit remand of Musharraf. The order also added clause 780-A pertaining to terrorism in the list of charges against the former army strongman.

    During the hearing, petitioner’s counsel, Advocate Mohammad Bilal Mughal, requested the court for a 15-day-long physical remand of the former president, whereas Musharraf’s lawyer, Qamar Afzal, asked for a judicial remand for his client.

    The court observed that the list of charges against Musharraf in the judges’ detention case entailed terrorism clauses which was why bail could not be granted to the retired general without him surrendering to authorities.

    Moreover, police told the court that Musharraf’s life was in danger which was why his farmhouse residence needed to be declared a sub-jail.

    Subsequently, the court added clause 780-A to the list of charges against Musharraf and ordered a two-day-long transit remand for the former president. An official at the court confirmed the order.

    Musharraf will now appear before a special anti-terrorist court on April 21.

    A spokesman for Musharraf’s All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) party said: “General Musharraf has been sent on a two-day judicial remand and he will stay at his farmhouse.”

    APML spokesman Muhammad Amjad said the magistrate had ordered Musharraf to appear before an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi after two days.

    “Musharraf himself surrendered before the court Friday morning,” Amjad said, denying media reports that he had been arrested prior to going to court.

    Also today, Interior Minister Malik Muhammad Habib Khan informed the Senate that Musharraf was already in government’s custody and that the former military ruler‘s Chak Shahzad residence had been declared a sub-jail.

    It is the first time that the judiciary has ordered the arrest of a former army chief of staff.

    Musharraf had been on the run after fleeing from the premises of the Islamabad High Court in the wake of the cancellation of his bail on Thursday. Twenty-four hours had passed since Musharraf’s escape from the IHC.

    His bail was cancelled in the judges’ detention case by IHC’s Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui on Thursday.

    In its written judgement, the IHC had ordered that: “He (Musharraf) be taken into custody and dealt with in accordance with law.”

    Judges’ detention case
    The case is based on an FIR against the retired general registered in August 11, 2009 on the complaint of Chaudhry Mohammad Aslam Ghumman advocate.

    He had asked the police to initiate legal proceedings against Musharraf for detaining over 60 judges, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, after proclamation of a state of emergency in the country on November 3, 2007.

    The case is one of three against Musharraf in Pakistani courts. He is also accused of involvement in a conspiracy to murder Benazir Bhutto in 2007 and over the 2006 killing of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Khan Bugti.

    Musharraf returned to Pakistan last month after nearly four years of self-imposed exile to contest the May 11 general election.

    Election officials had barred Musharraf from running for the National Assembly earlier this week, effectively derailing his attempts to regain a place in politics by standing at the polls.

    Although Musharraf’s legal battles have provided an electrifying sideshow in the election race, he commands scant popular support and the outcome of the drama is unlikely to have much impact on the final results.
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    Musharraf Denied Bail for Bhutto Assassination

    http://www.voanews.com/content/musha...n/1647781.html

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    April 24, 2013 - A Pakistani court has rejected bail for former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in connection with the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

    A prosecution lawyer said Wednesday the high court had dismissed Musharraf's bail request and the former leader could be arrested for his involvement in the Bhutto assassination.

    Musharraf had denied allegations that he was involved in the former prime minister's murder in December 2007.

    The court's decision Wednesday is the second time that Musharraf has recently been denied bail.

    He is currently under house arrest for dismissing top judges when he was in power in 2007.

    Musharraf seized power in a military coup in 1999 and ruled for nearly a decade before he was forced to step down in 2008.

    Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP.
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    Musharraf’s bail petition dismissed in Benazir murder case

    http://dawn.com/2013/04/24/musharraf...r-murder-case/

    RAWALPINDI: A division bench of the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi registry dismissed the bail petition submitted by former military ruler Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf in the Benazir Bhutto murder case. The bail was dismissed on the grounds that Musharraf’s counsel did not pursue the case on bail plea.

    Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)’s Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar said that following the cancellation of his bail petition, Musharraf could be arrested any time now.

    The bench had resumed the hearing over a petition filed by Musharraf seeking bail in the case pertaining to the murder of former two-time prime minister Benazir Bhutto in December 2007.

    The bench had earlier given the counsel for the petitioner an hour’s time to makes make its argument over why the former military should be granted bail.

    Musharraf’s counsel instead of giving his argument, had sought more time and requested the court to adjourn the hearing.

    Prosecuting lawyer of the FIA had objected to the request arguing that Musharraf was already under detention on judicial remand at his Chak Shehzad residence, which was declares as a sub-jail after the cancellation of his bail in the judges detention case.
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    Pakistan investigators to grill Musharraf on Benazir Bhutto assassination

    http://www.dnaindia.com/world/182687...-assassination

    Thursday, Apr 25, 2013, 15:52 IST | Place: Islamabad/Lahore | Agency: PTI

    Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman of the Rawalpindi-based anti-terrorism court on Thursday accepted a request from prosecutors to question Musharraf and to include him in the investigation into the 2007 assassination.

    Pakistani investigators will grill former military ruler Pervez Musharraf about a "threatening" phone call and email to Benazir Bhutto after an anti-terrorism court on Thursday ordered his inclusion in the probe into the ex-premier's assassination in 2007.

    Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman of the Rawalpindi-based anti-terrorism court on Thursday accepted a request from prosecutors to question Musharraf and to include him in the investigation into the 2007 assassination.

    Special prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said that a joint investigation team will question Musharraf on two issues – making a threatening phone call to Bhutto and sending an email that warned her not to return to Pakistan, and failing to provide adequate security to Bhutto after she came back from self-exile in 2007.

    Musharraf's failure to provide adequate security to Bhutto "indirectly facilitated and helped terrorists in executing their plan to murder" her, Ali said.

    Musharraf will also be quizzed on why he did not respond to five letters from Bhutto seeking foolproof security ahead of her return to Pakistan.

    "Musharraf provided foolproof security to other leaders like (then) Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz but ignored Benazir," he said.

    Ali, who is part of the joint investigation team, said Musharraf will be questioned at his farmhouse on the outskirts of Islamabad, which has been declared a 'sub-jail'.

    He said: "We had requested the anti-terrorism court to let Musharraf stay in (the farmhouse) because of security issues and the court accepted our plea."

    The joint investigation team is expected to complete questioning Musharraf by May 3.

    "We will complete the challan (chargesheet) after investigating him by May 3 and submit the same in the anti-terrorism court," Ali said.

    Bhutto was assassinated by a suicide bomber after addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi in December 2007.

    Earlier, the FIA requested the anti-terrorism court to include Musharraf in the probe a day after the Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court cancelled the former military ruler's interim bail in the assassination case.

    "The court gave FIA's joint investigation team permission to include Musharraf in the investigation and to arrest him," Ali told reporters outside the court.

    "In view of security threats to the accused, the investigation is to be done at the sub-jail," he said, referring to the decision by authorities to detain Musharraf at his farmhouse because of threats to his life.

    Ali said Musharraf would be presented in the anti-terrorism court tomorrow.

    The joint investigation team will decide whether to seek physical or judicial custody of Musharraf, he said.

    Legal experts said the FIA was completing formalities to include Musharraf in the probe and it was unlikely he would be moved from his farmhouse.

    The High Court’s decision on Wednesday to reject Musharraf's request to extend his interim bail over Bhutto's assassination added to the legal woes of the ex-army chief, who is facing several serious criminal cases.

    Lawyers have petitioned the Supreme Court to put him on trial for treason for imposing emergency in 2007 and he faces charges over the death of Baloch leader Akbar Bugti in a 2006 military operation.

    The 69-year-old former military ruler was arrested last week after the Islamabad High Court revoked his bail in a case related to the detention of over 60 judges during the 2007 emergency.

    Musharraf returned to Pakistan last month after nearly four years of self-exile, promising to "save" the country from economic ruin and militancy.

    However, he was barred from running in the May 11 general election, which will mark the first democratic transition of power in Pakistan’s history.
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    Musharraf to Remain Under House Arrest Until April 30

    http://www.voanews.com/content/musha...0/1649279.html

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    April 26, 2013

    A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has placed former president Pervez Musharraf under house arrest until April 30 in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.

    The court in Rawalpindi ordered the former military ruler's arrest Friday. Musharraf appeared in court under tight security.

    The former president is facing allegations he failed to provide adequate security to prevent the assassination of former prime minister Bhutto. Musharraf has denied involvement in the plot to kill her. Nobody has been convicted or jailed in the case.

    Musharraf is already under house arrest at his residence on the outskirts of Islamabad on charges stemming from his firing of top judges when he was in power in 2007.

    Musharraf lived in self-imposed exile for about four years before returning to Pakistan late last month with plans to run for parliament in general elections next month. Since his return, courts have ruled him ineligible for the poll.
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