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...Administration hunt down al-Qaeda terrorists both in Pakistan and next door in Afghanistan. Some Pakistanis, even inside the army, think Musharraf has gone too far, and public resentment against the U.S. is deepening. This fury is channeled through an Islamic group known as the Muttahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), the third-biggest faction in Parliament. An example of what's in store for Musharraf?and Washington?occurred last week when MMA chiefs started the parliamentary session with a prayer for Mir Aimal Kasi, who was executed by lethal injection in Virginia on Nov. 14 for assassinating two CIA agents...
...North Koreans procure materials to build a nuclear bomb. Then, last week a Lahore court released Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the leader of a banned Islamic militant organization with past links to al-Qaeda, claiming he had been unlawfully detained. Army support for Musharraf may also be slipping: diplomats say MMA leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed may have met with officials of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency before demanding that the President step down as army chief. With such tawdry beginnings, Musharraf's guided democracy may have already lost...
...order, as it did in both Pakistan and Kashmir last week. For President Pervez Musharraf, the election was intended to fulfill his promise to end one man rule?while ensuring he retained his own stranglehold on power. Early returns, however, indicated a fundamentalist coalition, the Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), was the unintended beneficiary of Musharraf's banning of past political powerhouses Benazir Bhutto and Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif from standing for office. The startling result calls into question Musharraf's grip on power and his ability to closely support America's war on terror...
...Pakistan People's Party and Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League. Together, they won less than half the places in the 342-seatNational Assembly. But unofficial estimates put voter turnout for the polls at around 30%?less than in Kashmir. And Musharraf failed to anticipate the rise of the MMA, which picked up 49 assembly seats on a platform excoriating Musharraf for hiscooperation with the U.S. (No single party got a majority, and horse trading began last week to find a compromise candidate for Prime Minister...
...liners even fret that cameras at the Karachi airport are feeding images into CIA computers. What riles them most is that Musharraf has buckled to U.S. pressure and scaled down Pakistan's covert support of Muslim militants fighting in Indian-held Kashmir. "This is against our sovereignty," says the MMA's Ahmed...