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...ASIA Japan: Is recovery for real? Nepal: Return of the Serpent China: Police under fire Interview: Pervez Musharraf...
...Skeptics point out that Pakistan has a habit of announcing dramatic antiterror moves to coincide with high-level meetings with American officials. At the time of the raid, President Pervez Musharraf had just returned from the U.N. in New York City; Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali was meeting with President Bush in Washington; and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who earlier had questioned whether Musharraf had the support of the entire Pakistani military, was preparing a trip to Islamabad...
...ASIA Japan: Is recovery for real? Nepal: Return of the Serpent China: Police under fire Interview: Pervez Musharraf...
...that the raid was based on intelligence and "was not at all to please the Americans or anyone else." Nor, he said, was it a response to the release of a tape last week in which Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called for the overthrow of Musharraf's government. A Western diplomat in Islamabad also viewed the raid?which involved hundreds of Pakistani soldiers, two of whom were killed?as an indication that Pakistan is getting more serious in the fight against terror: "It was quite a bold move, because this is an area where the government...
...ASIA Japan: Is recovery for real? Nepal: Return of the Serpent China: Police under fire Interview: Pervez Musharraf...