However, although Pakistan's state is not going to be overthrown, the country's nature is changing.
On 11 September, 1973, Allende was overthrown by a US-backed coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.
Each year since Saddam was overthrown the festivals have been plagued by terrorist attacks.
David Cameron wants people to remember what things were like before Gaddafi was overthrown.
Hamas has not been throttled and overthrown, as Israeli governments (and many others) have wished.
Marcos was finally overthrown in 1986, but even today Philippine democracy is more dream than reality.
Now, that's not to say it's right or wrong to have overthrown Saddam Hussein.
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Several tyrants were overthrown in their neighborhood last year in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia.
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In 1974, Portugal's authoritarian ruler Marcelo Caetano was overthrown in a military coup, surrendering to Gen.
When Mubarak was overthrown, the Brotherhood announced it would not run a candidate for president.
Without Cuba's help, he will almost certainly be overthrown by a more ambitious student of chavismo.
There's no imminent threat of the government being overthrown, but the Taliban has gained momentum.
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Somalia plunged into chaos after dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown 21 years ago.
Several parties also back a return of the monarchy, which was overthrown by Qaddafi in 1969.
It was further weakened when he was overthrown by junior officers the next year.
Mr Makdissi says they must not help Yemen's pro-Western government, which deserves to be overthrown.
Regimes that have clung to power for decades are now being overthrown and threatened.
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He was overthrown by a former politically ally, Gen Andres Rodriguez, in a coup in February 1989.
Egypt had fallen, Libyans had overthrown a powerful leader and there was a massive movement in Syria.
When U.S. forces went to war and Hussein was overthrown, the country became more open to reporters.
The ruling party, which was overthrown in a coup last week, was not involved in the process.
Feeble though it is, the Somali government does not seem under serious threat of being overthrown soon.
Predictions that governments might be overthrown if they pushed through harsh reforms have not been borne out.
This weakens the state, which is then overthrown by a younger, more vigorous and less democratic entity.
On this day in 1979, the Iranian revolution effectively began when the secular Shah of Iran was overthrown.
Kidnappings and armed robberies have increased during the year since Egypt's long-ruling dictator, Hosni Mubarak, was overthrown.
He was overthrown along with then-Army Chief of Staff Jose Amora Induta in a mutiny in April 2010.
The government of the Comoro islands was overthrown by the army in a coup that was widely condemned.
And if the mullahs aren't overthrown, the New Middle East will be a very dark and dangerous place.
In 1966, President David Dacko of the Central African Republic was overthrown in a coup by Jean-Bedel Bokassa.
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