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...using the "ABC" approach: abstain, be faithful and use condoms. An earlier controversy over the first tenet of that drive - abstinence, which critics claimed reflected an effort impose a conservative Christian morality amid a humanitarian catastrophe - remains. "Certain constituencies, such as sex workers, are excluded from PEPFAR money," says Ayesha Kajee, program director of the International Human Rights Exchange at Wits University in Johannesburg. But the program is also just one of the ways in which the Bush Administration has dramatically increased aid to Africa...
...criminal charges related to Musharraf's 1999 coup, risked the defection of key members of his party if he did not allow it to join the elections. "The [party] had a lot of heavyweights that stood a good chance of winning key seats if they contested," says Ayesha Tammy Haq, a prominent political talk show host. "If Sharif called for a boycott, they would have defected. The party would have been in tatters...
...delays posed by this "satanic subtlety" may also be giving the other half of the drama time to play out. The Supreme Court's ambiguous yellow light means "absolutely nothing," says Ayesha Tammy Haq, a lawyer and prominent political talk show host. That's because she believes that a long rumored power-sharing deal between Musharraf and Bhutto, the self-exiled two-time Prime Minister who fled Pakistan in 1999 under still-unanswered charges of corruption, is still on. Indeed, Musharraf was not opposed by Bhutto's powerful Pakistan People's Party (PPP) during Saturday's vote: the PPP simply...
...Others see the ruling as a long-term injury to Pakistan's democracy. "What this has done is set a precedent," says lawyer and talk-show host Ayesha Tammy Haq. "It means that from now on we can always have a military leader running for the office of President." Pakistan has, in fact, been ruled by successive military governments for most of the past 60 years. Pakistan's black-suited lawyers, united by a demand for rule of law, have lead a national campaign for the restoration of democracy that has proved far stronger than any opposition party. "The political...
Political analysts say the recent arrests may indicate that Musharraf feels he may not win a majority of the votes. "I think this is a sign of desperation," says Ayesha Tammy Haq, a prominent political-talk-show host, who notes that these arrests will only backfire against the already unpopular President. "You are not winning friends by doing something like this...