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The small crowd of party leaders gathered around her car cheered. The police started laying down another two rows of barbed wire, further locking her in. A water cannon truck pulled up. Still, Bhutto remained defiant. "We consider this a victory because there is no government today. We brought the...
But in the past year, that optimistic tale has seemed less and less credible. As terrorist groups in Pakistan have grown stronger and bolder, the general has spent a great deal of time battling institutions of a democratic society, such as the judiciary. On Nov. 3, Musharraf went the whole...
Bhutto, meanwhile, tried to have it both ways. She criticized the general and called for demonstrations against him but carefully kept open the possibility that their deal might still be on. Speaking with TIME, she said she wanted an immediate return to the constitution, for Musharraf to step down as...
But when he was inaugurated as president, he surprised South Africans by lifting the ban on the African National Congress, giving black leaders in the country a voice. He later organized the country’s first fully democratic constitution.
For the past eight years Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup, has run the country as both President and general. That straddling of both offices - which many say contravenes Pakistan's constitution - was challenged in October when Musharraf won a second term as President with 98% of the...