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...legitimize his rule. Likewise, some industrialists have grown disillusioned with Musharraf. They claim government officials threatened them into backing the referendum; to show their support, they sponsored huge banners praising the President. Exorbitant tax bills were presented to those who claimed other political loyalties. "Everybody is terrified," says a Karachi businessman. "We don't want our businesses to be destroyed. So we are supporting...
...This is what the underboss of the Dawood Ibrahim syndicate, or the "D-Company," told me in September of 1999. But life took him down the opposite path. Instead of dying for his country, he was sitting in a mansion in Karachi, a guest of the enemy country, unable to return to his birthplace, afraid of being liquidated at any moment by his hosts...
...What we need to ask ourselves is, Are we being true to our own religion by being intolerant of other faiths? Do we really think we are earning God's favor by fighting, killing, molesting and brutalizing people of other faiths who were created by one God? AYESHA PERVEZ Karachi...
PAKISTAN MORE EVIDENCE A cab driver became the second person to link Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh to the kidnapping of murdered U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl. The driver told a Karachi court that Sheikh had greeted Pearl when he was dropped outside a restaurant on Jan. 23. Pakistani officials say they want to complete their investigation of lead suspect Sheikh before considering a request for his extradition...
...India as the Journal's South Asia bureau chief, had decided not to travel to Afghanistan after the war broke out. He and his wife were expecting a baby, and it was just too dangerous. But that did not keep the war from coming to him. He was in Karachi, reporting on the militant mentors of accused shoe bomber Richard Reid, on Jan. 23, when he went to a restaurant in hopes of meeting a prominent but reclusive Muslim cleric. It was typical of Pearl's approach: take the risk, listen to all sides, try to figure out how they...