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...Army's spokesman, Major General Shaukat Sultan, acknowledged that no one had definitively spotted al-Zawahiri in the area since fighting flared on Tuesday. Lieut. General Safdar Hussain, the Frontier Corps commander, told journalists that a vehicle that may have been carrying al-Zawahiri managed to crash through militia roadblocks and escape. Yet what made the military believe they might still have a trophy in their gunsights was that al-Qaeda fighters normally vanish when confronted with a sizable force. This time they resisted fiercely, as if to protect someone special. Somewhere between 200 and 400 militants kept...
...McGirk, Syed Talat Hussain and Ghulam Hasnain
...from Pakistan into Indian-administered Kashmir end before any talks could start, and Pakistan vowed its territory would no longer serve as a terrorist base. For some, the portents have never been so good. "You could not have a better configuration of domestic politics in both countries," says Rifaat Hussain of the defense and strategic studies department at Islamabad's Quaid-I-Azam University. "Vajpayee is looking strong, and I've never seen such support for Musharraf...
...with India for some time, his decision to drop support for Kashmiri militancy was cemented by the Christmas Day attempt on his life?the second in two weeks?which was apparently made by graduates of Pakistani-sponsored militant training camps in Kashmir and Afghanistan. Quaid-I-Azam University's Hussain notes: "Musharraf was saying, 'Look, these guys are going to oppose me in any case, and I am forgoing all the benefits of normalized relations with India, so let's take them...
...ranks. However, the President is being more cautious. Last weekend, 10,000 security personnel, including soldiers brandishing machine guns at key intersections in Islamabad, descended on the capital in preparation for the regional South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) conference. And last week's oath-taking by Nazim Hussain Siddiqi, the new Chief Justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court, was held at Musharraf's Rawalpindi residence rather than the grand presidential palace in Islamabad, the customary venue. "That's like having your Chief Justice sworn in at the Pentagon," says Aitzaz Ahsan, an opposition parliamentarian...