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PAKISTAN Clampdown President Pervez Musharraf issued instructions to officials to step up moves against terrorist groups after a grenade attack on a Protestant church in Islamabad's diplomatic enclave during Sunday service killed five worshipers. Pakistan's Information Minister, Nisar Memon, blamed militant Islamic groups, possibly even al-Qaeda operatives. The U.S. ordered the withdrawal of all non-essential personnel from Pakistan...
Still, I think I would rather have dinner--in Belgrade or Islamabad or Jerusalem--with people like Daniel Pearl than with either the faculty of Harvard University or the first 100 names in the Boston telephone book. Why? It's their knowledgeable, companionable talk, the stories that their curiosity has unearthed and accumulated--their confidence that the world is a fascinating place and that journalism, though it may sometimes be wrongheaded or squalid, is also critically important and, quite often, a huge amount of fun. Correspondents like Pearl are the true students of the world's diversity (as opposed...
...Still, I think I would rather have dinner - in Belgrade or Islamabad or Jerusalem - with people like Daniel Pearl than with either the faculty of Harvard University or the first 100 names in the Boston telephone book. Why? It's their knowledgeable, companionable talk, the stories that their curiosity has unearthed and accumulated - their confidence that the world is a fascinating place and that journalism, though it may sometimes be wrongheaded or squalid, is also critically important and, quite often, a huge amount of fun. Correspondents like Pearl are the true students of the world's diversity (as opposed...
...confusion deepened Friday when an e-mail sent to news organizations, including CNN and Fox, claimed that Pearl had been executed and that his body could be found in an unspecified graveyard in Karachi. Someone else called the U.S. embassy in Islamabad demanding $2 million for Pearl's return. Attempts to trace the e-mails have so far proved inconclusive; the Wall Street Journal, for its part, said on Saturday that it believes Pearl may still be alive...
...sort of abduction of U.S. journalists before. Americans have been targeted in violent attacks in the past, but it was never clear who carried out those attacks. And obviously it's forced everyone to be a little more careful. The U.S. embassy today called in all American journalists in Islamabad for a security briefing...