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...Early last week, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf ordered his foreign office to find out whether Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee might accept a phone call from Islamabad. The diplomats said he would. Musharraf told Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali to start dialing. During a brief conversation, Jamali, reading from prepared notes, agreed with Vajpayee's earlier assertion that the countries should talk and formally invited him to Pakistan. On Friday, Vajpayee responded by announcing that India would restore full diplomatic relations and air links with Pakistan. The move re-opened the door that Delhi had slammed shut...
...election of President Pervez Musharraf's candidate for Prime Minister of Pakistan is a big victory for Musharraf, and for U.S. efforts to retain Pakistan's support in the war against terror. Zafarullah Khan Jamali, 58, a tribal chieftain from Baluchistan, narrowly defeated his closest rival, a pro-Taliban preacher. But his slim, one-vote majority reeked of political bullying and dealmaking. It was an arrangement rigged outside Parliament, struck in lengthy telephone calls to an exiled politician hoping for a comeback and, a losing candidate claims, tainted by bribes and threats...
Since Pakistan's parliamentary elections in October, Musharraf has faced growing opposition in the National Assembly. Jamali's party, the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid), which Musharraf hoped would do his bidding, fell far short of a majority, and the President has had to contend with angry anti-American clergymen and wily old pols from parties that he tried to crush...
...while Bhutto would be allowed back into Pakistan after two years to resume politics. In the end, losing ppp candidate Shah Mahmood Quereshi has alleged publicly, Musharraf turned to simpler tactics: using threats and bribes to persuade a few of Bhutto's assemblymen to switch loyalties and vote for Jamali. --By Tim McGirk
...Even then, Musharraf's candidate for Prime Minister only squeaked through?by a single vote. Mir Zafrullah Khan Jamali, 58, is a tribal chieftain from Baluchistan and a former national field hockey player, who is now expected to wield a big stick against the politicians on the general's behalf. It is unlikely that Jamali, a bearish, jovial man, will be able to do so. He won just 172 of the 329 votes cast. And even that thinnest of margins was suspect: a rule forbidding party defections was waived at Musharraf's behest, so that 10 PPP legislators could switch...