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...quite pleased with the cooperation we've got from them," says a U.S. official in Washington. A Western diplomat in Islamabad says, "There's grudging compliance. They're saluting Musharraf and obeying...
...ties to militants. Activity has been suspended in the training camps that once fed the Kashmir rebellion, militants say. But the ISI seems unwilling to make an irrevocable breach with the guerrillas, in the event it later decides to rev up its clandestine support of them, according to foreign diplomats. The seven main suspects still at large in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl last January all had indirect links with the spy agency through the Kashmir conflict, according to Western diplomats. Now they're on the run. A Pakistani police investigator in the case...
...bicycle chain before leaving him for dead. "They told me they wanted to destroy all trace of the government and anything outside the party," says Khada. "They told me they wanted to break everything down and then rebuild from chaos with their own Maoist cadres." Adds a Western diplomat in Kathmandu: "It's classic Year Zero. Kill or drive away anybody who could possibly be considered an enemy, break down all state and social fabric and replace it with fear.In the end the party is the only thing left." The former rebel commander?now hiding out in the capital after...
...international isolation over allegations of forced labor and the treatment of dissidents, chief among them Suu Kyi. Letting her go is the vital first step on Burma's road to recovery. "There's no way out of these problems, unless the generals have her on board," says a Western diplomat...
...While many diplomats agree that Suu Kyi will prove to be more flexible, they are divided over whether the military is sincere about continuing rapprochement. "I don't think they know themselves," says a diplomat. "They may have got themselves into something they don't know how to get out of." The real tests will be whether or not the military maintains a mechanism for dealing with Suu Kyi and instituting reforms, and what happens when the time comes to discuss political change. One conundrum is what to do about the 1990 election outcome in which...