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...politicians wrestle to build new coalitions in the aftermath of the parliamentary polls, it would seem that the worst of Pakistan's struggles are over. With no party achieving a majority, the opposition will have to work together. If the Pakistan People's Party of the recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto can come to an agreement with Nawaz Sharif, the former Prime Minister who was overthrown by Musharraf in 1999, then the opposition may be able to muster the two-thirds of seats necessary to try to impeach the President. The election result is clearly a repudiation of Musharraf's eight...
...long border with Afghanistan, and a newly unified militant group is hounding the military with devastating success. Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the group and al-Qaeda's viceroy in the region, has been blamed for last December's suicide-bomb attack that killed former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Twelve out of 14 suspects arrested in January for planning terrorist attacks in Spain are Pakistani; all are thought to have trained in the country's tribal areas. Sixty suicide bombings in Pakistan last year left at least 770 people dead and nearly 1,600 injured...
...Terrorism, indeed, is proving to be an effective means to advance the religious cause. In Swat, a picturesque valley that has been besieged by Fazlullah's militant forces, the government has proposed the implementation of Shari'a. Bhutto's husband and de facto successor, Asif Ali Zardari, says he will eschew the military option in favor of dialogue with militants in the restive tribal areas along the border. That approach could work, but it requires the Pakistani people to take a firm position on who takes control of their religion. The extremists have already shown that they are willing...
...that the people didn't support him, he would stand down. The Pakistani people have spoken: Musharraf's party was trounced in the Feb. 18 election, earning only 42 seats out of 272 elected positions in the National Assembly, far fewer than the parties of the recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The question is, Will Musharraf listen? And more important, does the U. S. Administration, which has always seen him as its best ally in the war on terrorism, want...
...make it clear that U.S. policy in the region should "move from personality to the people." But behind the scenes, U.S. officials are encouraging the victorious parties to work with Musharraf, still their favorite personality. A coalition among Musharraf and Sharif (whom he ousted in a 1999 coup) and Bhutto's widower Asif Ali Zardari is a nice idea, but it may be too late. Zardari and Sharif have publicly asked Musharraf to resign. They have the support of Pakistanis, still angry over Musharraf's recent dismissal of the Supreme Court and six-week suspension of the constitution...