State Department Acting Spokesman Robert Wood said Clinton,in her calls to the Pakistani leadership on Saturday, urged a non-violent settlement of the confrontation with the opposition and said that there should be no impediments to peaceful, democratic assembly.

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Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) was a saint-genius who turned opposition to British rule into a mass movement and demonstrated, through non-violent protest, that virtue has its own inescapable power.

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Indian Muslims had a history of violent opposition to the British that was at odds with Gandhi's non-violence.

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