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...efforts aimed at cobbling together a successor government to the Taliban. But that political alchemy can't be ordered off the shelf. The West must first broker a consensus among Afghanistan's multitude of opposition groups. In Pakistan last week, Colin Powell seemed to get behind Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's proposal that a governing coalition would include Taliban "moderates"--members of the majority Pashtun tribe in the south who could be convinced, or bribed, to peel away from the regime. Rumsfeld signaled that the Pentagon no longer intends to eradicate Taliban forces wholesale. "It is going...
...Problems in Pakistan: Pakistan, which serves as a key staging ground for U.S. special forces, has so far contained anti-American sentiment, but General Musharraf's regime may be feeling the heat. A helicopter ferrying U.S. Special Forces reportedly came under ground fire from within Pakistan last weekend. And Friday's Muslim prayers saw the biggest anti-American demonstrations yet on the streets of Karachi. Fearing a mounting backlash, Musharraf wants the bombing to end by Ramadan. After all, right now he faces large demonstrations once a week after Friday prayers, but during Ramadan many more Muslims go to mosque...
...reluctant partner in a war it had hoped would be brief and surgical. It is now increasingly plain that this will be neither, and the incident last week in which a U.S. Special Forces helicopter took ground fire near a base inside Pakistan highlighted the potential domestic crisis General Musharraf faces for offering his support. Not surprisingly, the general is urging the U.S. to end its bombing campaign by Ramadan. The same demand has been echoed at the opposite end of the region's political spectrum, by the Northern Alliance. And there is little doubt that if bombs are falling...
...Still, the sweep was a decisive consolidation of Musharraf's power and a first step toward reversing more than two decades of Islamization in the 550,000-man army. It's now less likely anyone inside the military can sabotage or ignore Musharraf's pro-Western policies, leaving him freer to pursue his oft-stated goal of transforming Pakistan into a progressive Islamic state...
...Taliban a "second chance," saying he would call off the assault if they surrendered bin Laden. The regime rejected the proposal. The Western military action sparked protests in Pakistan, Indonesia, Iraq and the Palestinian territories, where police opened fire on bin Laden supporters in Gaza. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf struggled to contain anti-American demonstrations in several major cities. He sidelined two generals and replaced his intelligence chief - all three had pro-Taliban sympathies - before allowing the country?s airspace and later airbases to be used by U.S. forces...