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...Algeria's Armed Islamic Group, which appear to have provided a number of key operatives for Bin Laden's networks, both emerged in situations where democratic channels were closed to Islamists and other opposition groups. In the case of Pakistan, the authoritarian regime of the late General Zia ul-Haq actually encouraged the emergence of Islamist groups as a bulwark against domestic leftists and a vanguard to fight the Soviets in neighboring Afghanistan. Now, some of those same Islamists may be coming back to haunt the current military government...
Authorities may never know the identity of the victim?believed to have been no more than 21 years old when she died?or of her enterprising murderer (or team of killers) who went to enormous trouble to duplicate mummification techniques and the ancient cuneiform writing. Saleem ul Haq, director of Karachi's archaeology department, is convinced the perpetrator of the fraud is "definitely someone who has links to archaeology." But as good as his attention to detail may have been, it wasn't good enough. The first clue: South Asia's ancient civilizations had no tradition of mummification. Also...
...woman's vertebrae were dislocated or fractured. All of her teeth were missing. Grammatical errors in the cuneiform inscriptions suggested the engraver knew modern Persian. The mummy's gold ornaments weighed only 15 grams. "No princess could wear such poor jewelry," says the Karachi archaeology department's Haq...
...says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "The general had to find a way to keep the well-connected Nawaz from mounting a challenge to his regime." Disposing of the head of the ancien régime has become something of a tradition in Pakistani politics: General Zia-ul-Haq had Zulfikar Ali Bhutto hanged after taking power in a 1977 coup; Bhutto's daughter, Benazir, didn't have to bother since it was the plane crash that killed General Zia that allowed her to come to power in 1988. Then, Nawaz Sharif put Benazir out of action with...
...hostilities with its nearest neighbor; or does it work with General Musharraf in the hope that he can be coaxed back onto the democratic path. Tradition points to the latter course. After all, Washington worked closely with the last military government, led by General Zia ul-Haq, which ceded to civilian rule in 1988, and successive U.S. administrations have recognized the Pakistani military as a source of stability in a fractious and volatile nation. Still, a martial law declaration by any other name is still martial law, and this dashes hopes that General Musharraf could parlay the widespread opposition...