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...could not have highlighted this point more clearly, providing a sterling example of the malleable standards by which we judge some leaders but not others.To give some context to Khatami’s visit, it is important to step back in history to September 2002. Back then, General Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, came to speak at the Institute of Politics under what administrators described as the tightest ever security provided.The highlight of Musharraf’s visit arose courtesy of President Lawrence H. Summers’ enthusiastic remarks. As the Harvard Gazette reported, Summers introduced the president, saying that...
President Bush shouldn't expect much mirth and bonhomie around the dinner table Wednesday when he hosts Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai. While both guests are considered key U.S. allies at the very epicenter of the war on al-Qaeda, neither man considers the other a friend, or even an ally. Karzai accuses Pakistan of enabling the massive Taliban resurgence inside Afghanistan - which has left his fledgling democratic administration unable to function as an effective government in much of the country. On Tuesday, he called on Musharraf to close the radical Islamic madrassa schools...
...When Musharraf's government, earlier this month, concluded a non-aggression pact with local pro-Taliban militants in the tribal province of Waziristan - long considered a likely hiding place of Osama bin Laden and other key al-Qaeda leaders - NATO leaders were as furious as Karzai. Reports that the deal had been brokered in part by exiled Taliban leader Mullah Omar only deepened the sense that Pakistan had, in effect, made a separate peace with the Taliban. Key NATO countries whose troops are fighting a hot war with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan - Britain, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands - actually...
HIRE THIS MAN'S PRESS SECRETARY During a joint appearance with President Bush, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf dodges questions about his allegation that the U.S. threatened to bomb his country if it did not cooperate in the war on terrorism: "I am launching my book on the 25th, and I am honor-bound to Simon & Schuster not to comment on the book before that day." Can you judge a book by its diplomatic cover...
...PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, President of Pakistan, recounting the post-9/11 threat to his intelligence director by Richard Armitage, then U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, of consequences if Pakistan did not cooperate in the war on terrorism. Armitage disputed the language and said, "There was no military threat...