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...anyone who has been clinging to the notion that America can win this war the easy way, the fate of Abdul Haq should serve as a powerful antidote. Few knew how to fight in the rugged Afghan steppes and summits better than Haq, a legendary mujahedin guerrilla who lost his right foot to a land mine while helping rout the Soviets. He left Afghanistan during the post-Soviet power struggle and renounced politics after his wife and son were murdered in his Peshawar, Pakistan, home. But he recently returned to the Afghan frontier, hoping to enlist defectors and warlords...
...Taliban confab this week suggested the bombing campaign had actually drawn many Pashtun groups towards the Taliban, which has reportedly begun distributing weapons to Pashtun civilians in order to widen the fight against the U.S. and the Northern Alliance. The reported capture and execution of legendary mujahedeen commander Abdul Haq by the Taliban on Friday deals a blow to efforts to forge an anti-Taliban coalition in the movement's own heartland. Opposition leaders remain confident that much of the Taliban will abandon their leaders once serious fighting begins, but the tide has clearly not yet turned...
...boss of ISI, Lieut. General Ehsan ul- Haq, is regarded as moderate, professional and without political ambition. But some wonder if he is ruthless enough to overhaul an agency still filled with Islamic sympathizers. ISI, says a diplomat, "has to be cut down to size...
...boss of ISI, Lieut. General Ehsan ul- Haq, is regarded as moderate, professional and without political ambition. But some wonder if he is ruthless enough to overhaul an agency still filled with Islamic sympathizers. ISI, says a diplomat, "has to be cut down to size...
...Pakistan was created as a homeland for India's Muslims?its very name means "land of the spiritually pure"?but Jinnah, who favored a pluralistic democracy, never envisioned a theocratic state. His successors had other ideas, and 30 years after Jinnah was gone, the military dictator General Zia ul-Haq shackled the country's fortunes to religion with a decade-long Islamization drive from which Pakistan has never recovered...