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...Pakistani soldiers are well trained in the art of survival, and Musharraf remains a soldier to his core. Indeed, he still bids farewell to civilians and even foreign journalists with a salute. The trouble is, politics--local and international--requires a different set of skills: the art of compromise, the popular touch, Machiavellian guile, a rare gift for persuasion. And those skills are not taught at the military academy...
...some concern. The Pakistan military considers itself the country's only functioning institution. What it steadfastly fails to concede is that military rule for 28 of the country's 55 years of existence has kept the other democratic institutions, such as the parliament and the judiciary, from maturing. Musharraf shares this mind-set, displaying a self-serving indifference to democratic niceties, while also portraying himself grandiosely as the shepherd of "real democracy." In a speech to the National Press Club in Washington last February, he declared, "I am more democratic than any government [that] ever existed in Pakistan." He claims...
...rule slides to an end, the criticism of Musharraf is getting louder. His newfound moderation in Kashmir--he has at least temporarily choked the flow of militants into India--has further eroded his popular support among hard-liners. "He abandoned Afghanistan, claiming it was necessary to save other Pakistani interests, including Kashmir," says Farhan Bokhari, a member of the radical Islamic group Hizb ut-Tehrir. "Now he's abandoning Kashmir." India distrusts Musharraf utterly, and its battalions remain poised on the border. His embrace of Washington has earned him the sneering nickname at home of "Bush-arraf." While publicly supportive...
...soldier is beginning to show the strain. Musharraf still exercises every evening, briskly striding around the tightly guarded Army House compound. But he is suffering from a bum shoulder and can barely lift his arm. "See?" he says, failing to get it fully over his head. "That's as far as it goes." His daily tennis game, played with security guards, was canceled a few months...
...friends like Rashid Ali Malik, a retired brigadier who trained at the military academy with the President, insist Musharraf is unfazed by the growing conflict. "I met him recently," says Malik, "and I said there must be a great deal of pressure on you. He said it has peaked. He's a tough guy, no question about...