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...ruling coup-prone Pakistan is perilous in the best of times, consider the current plight of Pervez Musharraf. The general who seized power exactly two years ago to domestic acclaim now sees his effigy burned in the streets. The self-appointed President who favored the Taliban has turned his back on a Muslim neighbor. The military ruler shunned by the West has cast his lot with Washington. After two years of mollycoddling religious extremists, he has vowed to move "swiftly and firmly" if they protest his new policies too violently. Now he must navigate a country with enough enriched uranium...
...partial to the Taliban or its brand of fierce Islam who might try to undermine his new policies. Just about everyone was taken off guard, only a few hours before the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan began, when Musharraf smoothly purged three key generals who had engineered the October 1999 coup that brought him to power. He replaced the vice chief of staff with Lieut. General Muhammad Yusuf Khan, a moderate general whose friends call him "Joe." He kicked upstairs to a ceremonial post a key corps commander considered sympathetic to the ideological extreme. He replenished the upper ranks with loyal...
...ruling coup-prone Pakistan is perilous in the best of times, consider the current plight of Pervez Musharraf. The general who seized power exactly two years ago to domestic acclaim now sees his effigy burned in the streets. The self-appointed President who favored the Taliban has turned his back on a Muslim neighbor. The military ruler shunned by the West has cast his lot with Washington. After two years of mollycoddling religious extremists, he has vowed to move "swiftly and firmly" if they protest his new policies too violently. Now he must navigate a country with enough enriched uranium...
...partial to the Taliban or its brand of fierce Islam who might try to undermine his new policies. Just about everyone was taken off guard, only a few hours before the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan began, when Musharraf smoothly purged three key generals who had engineered the October 1999 coup that brought him to power. He replaced the vice chief of staff with Lieut. General Muhammad Yusuf Khan, a moderate general whose friends call him "Joe." He kicked upstairs to a ceremonial post a key corps commander considered sympathetic to the ideological extreme. He replenished the upper ranks with loyal...
...said in the introduction to Political Fictions, it was a kind of high coup in the process, reducing the electorate to a few hundred voters and then fighting over them for 35 days. It was a perfect thing from the parties’ point of view; they had achieved parity. I don’t think it had anything to do with the democratic process or with anything in our politics that came before. I thought it was very peculiar, and I thought it was unfortunate that the Supreme Court decided to hear...