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...country. Poor policies eventually resulted in crippling electricity blackouts, dangerous food shortages and rampant inflation. His autocratic leadership style and refusal to share power with the country's two biggest democratic parties also meant that the fight against religious militants in Pakistan came to be seen as Musharraf's (and America's) war, utterly lacking in popular support. Large swathes of territory were overrun by Pakistani Taliban, army morale crumbled and the once unheard-of tactic of suicide bombing became commonplace in Pakistan...
...that Musharraf has gone, the country needs to come together. Too much time has been spent blaming Musharraf rather than finding solutions to Pakistan's pressing problems. Pakistan must look to the future and break decisively from its past. For Sharif and Bhutto's widower Asif Zardari, leaders of the two mainstream parties, this means avoiding a return to the vindictiveness and squabbling that characterized relations between their parties in the 1990s and undermined Pakistan's previous experiment with democracy. Their first test will be the selection of a new President, where it is essential that a nonpartisan, mutually acceptable...
...Democracy brings responsibility. With Musharraf gone, Pakistan's leaders would do well to remember that the public now has only them to blame...
...surge bent on forcing all foreigners out of the country. TIME's Aryn Baker took advantage of a lull in the fighting to sit down with Karzai, 50, in the garden of his fortified palace in Kabul to discuss the violence, the Aug. 18 resignation of Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf, and widespread accusations of corruption in the Afghan government that are driving a wedge between the people and their leader, just when unity is most needed. Excerpts from their two-hour conversation...
...Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, your longtime foe, stepped down yesterday. What does this mean for Afghanistan? Arrivals and departures don't matter much - unless we correct the institutions, unless we change the mind-sets that follow an old policy. For example, if Pakistan is using radicalism as a tool of policy for strategic depth in Afghanistan, well, I wish to tell them it won't work. The best strategic depth in Afghanistan is friendship, cooperation. Afghanistan is willing to build that kind of relationship: cooperation, not weaponry, not sanctuary, not undermining, not seeking a puppet state. That will...