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...Reported by Hannah Bloch/ Islamabad, Ghulam Hasnain/ Dabori Valley, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/ Washington and Michael Ware/ Musa...
...Would it come to war? The Bush Administration worked desperately to head off that possibility, with Secretary of State Colin Powell at one point camping in his office to work the phones to Islamabad and New Delhi. The last thing Washington needs as it strives to complete its goals in Afghanistan is a separate, new war in the region. That would distract Pakistan, whose cooperation is essential to the American strategy in Afghanistan, as well as complicate the fortunes of its leader, Pervez Musharraf, who has proved a handy partner...
...with Pakistani General Pervez Musharraf. "You were in an extraordinarily difficult position," Bush told him, describing his guest's decision to join the anti-Taliban coalition a month before. "And you made the right choice." Musharraf, however, wanted something in return, something that would signal long-term support for Islamabad. Bush, he said, should approve the delivery of F-16 fighter jets that had been held up after the U.S. applied sanctions to Pakistan almost a decade ago. "We're not ready to talk about F-16s right now," Bush replied. "But this is a long friendship...
...Pakistan disputes that, and this week has frozen the assets of one of the accused groups, the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, and put the leader of the other, Jaish-e-Mohammed, in "preventative detention." But Islamabad says it will not take further action until India provides evidence linking the groups to the parliament attack that killed 14 people, including five of the attackers. Both groups deny responsibility...
...Indian and Pakistani media were dominated by their governments' standoff over last week's terrorist attack on the parliament in New Delhi. The Pakistani Daily Dawn is filled with reports of mounting tension along the borders, Pakistan denying complicity in the attacks and China expressing undying support for Islamabad. But a bold op-ed in the same paper demands that Pakistan extricate itself from all direct involvement in Kashmir and take a strong stand against terrorism there. "A war of national liberation is essentially based on a premise of morality. Random killings of innocents in Kashmir - by our so-called...