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...political party; it has to do with having sound institutions and freedom of expression. Musharraf has set Pakistan back many years and undone the past eight years of his rule. Sadly, he was the one who claimed he was liberating Pakistan from the shackles of backwardness. Syed Arif Rehman, Karachi...
...political party; it has to do with having sound institutions and freedom of expression. Musharraf has set Pakistan back many years and undone the past eight years of his rule. Sadly, he was the one who claimed he was liberating Pakistan from the shackles of backwardness. Syed Arif Rehman, KARACHI...
SYED ARIF REHMAN, KARACHI...
...welcomed by many citizens, but now the general has lost support. There is dissatisfaction among the masses because of Musharraf's actions, especially his ouster of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. In desperately trying to hold on to power, Musharraf is making a joke of democracy. Syed Arif Rehman, Karachi...
...same time, however, to hedge its bets, India has been making quiet overtures to the pro-democracy opposition. When former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, after returning to Pakistan, escaped a deadly attack on her convoy in Karachi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the ruling Congress Party's leader, Sonia Gandhi, personally called Bhutto to express concern. Yet publicly, India's stance has been reticent. Maintaining a silence while Washington waves sticks and carrots at its wayward prot?g? serves India's purpose just as well. Last week's visit to Pakistan by Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was followed with...