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...Hours before the competing rallies, local officials used shipping containers and tanker-trucks to barricade all the city's major roads and intersections, blocking access to and from Karachi's Quaide Azam International Airport. Hundreds of young Musharraf supporters, many of them armed with handguns and automatic weapons, then surrounded the majestic pink-stone building of the Sindh High Court where the Chief Justice had been expected to address the legal fraternity. The mob attacked anyone wearing black trousers, a white shirt and a black jacket - the dress code of Pakistan's courtroom lawyers...
...agree that Musharraf might be necessary at a time of domestic extremism and ongoing peace talks with India. (Staunch ally Washington certainly does.) "Pakistan has never seen the successful transfer of power from one civilian government to another," says Dr. Rifaat Hussain, a professor at Islamabad's Quaid-i-Azam University. "If Musharraf can guide the government to its first completed term in 2007, it will be a significant achievement...
...Behind the scenes, the new U.S. Administration should help broker a settlement between India and Pakistan over the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir, says Riffat Hussain, professor of security studies at Islamabad's Quaid-e-Azam University. That would defuse tension between these two nuclear-armed enemies. A partial settlement over Kashmir could be one major surprise in the offing. Musharraf has suggested dropping Pakistan's insistence that a referendum be held among Kashmiris to choose whether they want the territory to belong to India or Pakistan. But President Bush will also have to decide whether to push Musharraf into...
...Pakistan vowed its territory would no longer serve as a terrorist base. For some, the portents have never been so good. "You could not have a better configuration of domestic politics in both countries," says Rifaat Hussain of the defense and strategic studies department at Islamabad's Quaid-I-Azam University. "Vajpayee is looking strong, and I've never seen such support for Musharraf...
...been considering rapprochement with India for some time, his decision to drop support for Kashmiri militancy was cemented by the Christmas Day attempt on his life?the second in two weeks?which was apparently made by graduates of Pakistani-sponsored militant training camps in Kashmir and Afghanistan. Quaid-I-Azam University's Hussain notes: "Musharraf was saying, 'Look, these guys are going to oppose me in any case, and I am forgoing all the benefits of normalized relations with India, so let's take them...