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By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 19 November 2007 Pakistan's Supreme Court has dismissed the main legal challenges to General Pervez Musharraf's presidential re-election on October 6. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad the court struck down the c

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