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...President Pervez Musharraf's government has done little to capture the many Taliban commanders who have fled into hiding in the country, according to Afghan officials and Taliban fighters and sympathizers in the frontier Pakistani cities of Quetta and Peshawar. Those exiles include Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed mullah who formerly led the Taliban. Pakistan's reluctance, according to a senior Kabul official, stems from its "nostalgia" for when Afghanistan was firmly within its orbit of influence. Letting the Taliban remain free gives Pakistan a card to play if or when the U.S. decides to vacate Afghanistan. "If money...
...Harakatul Mujahideen; after being shot by police; in Islamabad. Pakistani officials claim that Ghafoor had ties to Amjad Farooqi, a suspected al-Qaeda operative killed in September who was wanted in connection with the 2002 killing of journalist Daniel Pearl as well as two assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf. Deputy inspector general of police Javed Ali Shah Bokhari said Ghafoor "had a role in all terrorist activities orchestrated by [Farooqi...
...next U.S. Administration, handling Afghanistan and Pakistan will require the deft touch of a demolition expert faced with a ticking bomb. In both countries, Washington is gambling on the survival of its chosen favorites?Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf. But this strategy has its risks; both leaders have been the targets of assassins, and there is a shortage of second-string choices suitable to Washington if either Karzai or Musharraf are killed...
...should discourage Musharraf from playing a double game with the Taliban. Some influential elements inside the Pakistani intelligence service and the military remain convinced that they can influence events in Afghanistan to Pakistan's benefit by backing the Taliban. Officials in Kabul are perplexed that Pakistan has failed to capture a single top Taliban commander, although U.S. and Afghan officials have evidence that dozens of rebel chiefs are living openly in the Pakistani border towns of Quetta and Peshawar. There is the perception in Kabul that, as one Afghan official put it, "if Islamabad can't have a satellite government...
...settlement between India and Pakistan over the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir, says Riffat Hussain, professor of security studies at Islamabad's Quaid-e-Azam University. That would defuse tension between these two nuclear-armed enemies. A partial settlement over Kashmir could be one major surprise in the offing. Musharraf has suggested dropping Pakistan's insistence that a referendum be held among Kashmiris to choose whether they want the territory to belong to India or Pakistan. But President Bush will also have to decide whether to push Musharraf into establishing a timetable for the restoration of democracy in Pakistan...