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...whom he had long been loyal. Despite Gilani's title, however, it is Bhutto's widower, the controversial Asif Ali Zardari, who is the true power behind Bhutto's People's Party and who has made the bulk of the decisions from his heavily guarded home in a leafy Islamabad neighborhood. Zardari is not shy about his influence, using words like "my government" and referring to himself as a "father" to the People's Party, just as Bhutto was its "mother." But now, Gilani, four months after he was elected Prime Minister, has begun to play a more assertive role...
...Multan, a recent protest over power outages saw 58 gravely injured and hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to government buildings, factories, utilities and vehicles. If the problems continue it could lead to political instability. "The economy is more urgent than extremism," says an American diplomat in Islamabad...
...Khalid Aziz, a onetime political agent appointed by Islamabad to administer to the tribal areas, the militancy is an obvious outcome of the antiquated agreement. Development that brought schools, jobs, roads, health care and electricity to the rest of Pakistan largely bypassed the tribal areas. Unemployment among the population of 3.5 million hovers around 70%. Two-thirds live below the poverty line. Only 6% of inhabitants can read. For women it's less than 1%. "Given that kind of environment; it's not likely that you will see a Leonardo da Vinci come up," says Aziz, who now heads...
...Rather than a wholesale elimination of the FCR, there should be a gradual transition, says Haider Mullick, a former Brookings analyst. "It's not rocket science. It's sitting down with them and saying, O.K., here are 100 things that are different from how we operate in Islamabad. We will concede on some of these issues. But there are going to be some no-nos on our side, and some on yours. For example, no public stoning of women - that's out of the question. In turn we will ensure that no soldier can walk in and search your house...
...Kabul VIOLENCE RETURNS Afghan authorities implied that Pakistan's intelligence agency was behind a July 7 suicide bombing at the Indian embassy in Kabul, above, that killed 41 people--the capital's deadliest since 2001. Pakistan denied involvement, while dealing with its own carnage: a July 6 bombing in Islamabad killed at least 18 on the one-year anniversary of a deadly government raid on the city's Red Mosque, and a series of small explosions rocked Karachi on July...