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...troubled. Military and feudal élites were threatened by his socialist policies, and rivalries over resources between his home province of Sindh and the Punjab of the traditional ruling classes roiled Pakistan. In 1977, the military government stepped in, hanging Bhutto in 1979 over controversial charges of conspiracy to murder. The country's grief turned to rage in its adolescence. The Soviet invasion of neighboring Afghanistan in 1979 sparked a jihad. Death and martyrdom became an honorable answer to oppressive power, a legacy that Pakistan has been unable to shrug...
...today and saw the sardine-packed trains of Kosovo's refugees and you did not know the time frame, you could easily assume these were pictures of the horrific removal of Jews to the death camps during World War II. Ethnic cleansing is a euphemism for genocide or methodical murder. Don't be fooled: the motive in Kosovo is religious hatred. The ethnic Albanians are Muslims, and the murdering Serbs are Christians. How can religious people throughout the world remain silent, knowing such an outrage is being committed? Muslims, Jews and Christians, stand up and be counted. EDWARD MORRISROE Lake...
With rumors of government complicity in Benazir Bhutto's assassination rife throughout Pakistan, the country's stability may depend on the absolute transparency of the investigation into the murder. But a constantly evolving and sometimes contradictory explanation of the events by Pakistani investigators has only clouded the issue. Meanwhile, her husband and her supporters are asking for a United Nations-led inquiry into her death, something Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is unlikely to accede to. But even if Musharraf were to agree, there is very little for international forensics experts to investigate...
...announcement of the PPP's new leadership team - party loyalist Mukhdoom Amin Fahim will be the party's prime ministerial candidate in any election - answered one of the many questions that Pakistan has faced since Benazir's murder in a shooting and suicide bomb attack as she left a political rally on Thursday evening...
...uproar and turmoil al-Qaeda has always seen as its best method of destabilizing enemy regimes it wants to replace. "To al-Qaeda, any means of bringing that about is fair game," the French counter-terrorism official notes, saying the group's active involvement or connivance in Bhutto's murder may be a mere detail compared to the result. "If its leaders thought political assassination of Musharraf's main rival would create real trouble for Musharraf himself, why would they hesitate? They're willing to do anything, and with anyone's help...