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...buoy public support, Musharraf seems to be cozying up to former Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, both of whom are in enforced exile; Bhutto's husband, Asif Zardari, was recently released from jail, where he had been held for eight years on corruption charges. Reconciliation could lead to a promising tableau: a general-cum-President sharing democratic space with the leaders of Pakistan's two main political parties...
...elected. Vajpayee takes a bus to Lahore for peace talks with Pakistan's then Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif. They pledge to ease tension, but a few months later Pakistani soldiers and Islamic militants clash with Indian troops in Kashmir. The Pakistanis are under the command of army chief?and future President?Pervez Musharraf...
...November 2001, among others--attending meetings in '96 and '98 but insisted they were efforts to persuade Sudan and Afghanistan to hand over bin Laden. The case against Pakistan is cloudier. It is well known that Islamist elements in the ISI were assisting the Taliban under the government of Nawaz Sharif. But even if Mir dealt with bin Laden, he could have been operating outside official channels...
...Shari'a law throughout the country, a step the President, a religious moderate, is loathe to make. If he wants to save his fa?ade of civilian government and retain international support, he may have to swallow hard and make peace with two exiled former Prime Ministers, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, whose parties together are strong enough to foil the clerics...
Polls and ballots do not make a liberal democracy. Consequently, it is impossible to distinguish our friends and foes solely by the outward trappings of democracy. Generals Pinochet and Park oversaw the rapid economic development of Chile and South Korea, and Pakistan under the nominally elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif helped North Korea build nuclear weapons. Elections are desirable as long as they lead to good results over the long run. The Iraqi people, having no experience with democracy and accustomed to dictatorship, are in no condition to exercise the responsibility of popular sovereignty. Real democracy is less likely than...