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Elections for Pakistan's national assembly and its four provincial assemblies have been scheduled for January 8, and thousands of people jailed under emergency rule reportedly have been released, officials said Tuesday.

Opposition parties, including those of former Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, have indicated they would boycott elections so long as the emergency declaration and suspension of the constitution remained in place.

Opposition party leader and former cricket star Imran Khan launched a hunger strike in jail, saying he would keep it up until the Supreme Court justices sacked last month by Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, were reinstalled. Read full article »

CNN's Mohsin Naqvi contributed to this report.

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