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...official: Pakistan has followed her neighbor into the nuclear club. "Today we have settled the score with India," Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif declared on Pakistani television. And it truly is a tit-for-tat: Five atomic devices were detonated at the Pakistani test site near the Iran-Afghanistan border, matching India bomb for bomb. Such an overtly macho action is hardly unusual in subcontinental politics. As TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says: "Pakistan is trying to return to the status quo ante...
...will do nothing rash, since it is still engaged in that policy review. "We were sucked in," says a U.S. diplomat. "We came away from the meetings saying, 'Hey, they're not going to take any precipitous actions.'" A stern letter is sent to Clinton by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in early April, warning that "we have every reason to believe the Indian policy pronouncement connotes a giant step toward fully operationalizing nuclear policy." The State Department dismisses the letter as crying wolf and files it in the false-alarm drawer. By then, India's preparations are well under...
...With Pakistan already under U.S. sanctions for its nuclear program, adds Waller, ?there are not many levers left to pull." And pressure from Islamic fundamentalists and other opposition parties is likely to spur Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to test. ?Most observers here would be amazed if a test does not take place,? reports TIME Islamabad correspondent Hannah Bloch...
...patronage and receiving kickbacks on government contracts handed out to business associates. Whether Bhutto stays in power will largely depend on how she handles her relations with the military. One develoment in her favor: the top army command shifted last January, with the sudden death of General Asif Nawaz Janjua, to General Abdul Whaheed, 56, who is considered to be less political than his predecessors. But he too will face pressure from the armed services to defend the large defense budget, which Bhutto's poor and low-income supporters will want to see cut. After the army's role...
...other unknown is the reaction of Nawaz Sharif, 44, who warned last week that "the election is not over." Among other things, he was referring to the outcome of balloting for Pakistan's four powerful provincial assemblies, which got under way at week's end. Hostile provincial administrations have the power to unite, confining the authority of the national government to virtually within the capital district of Islamabad. As it is, support for Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif reflects the regional divisons that have undermined national stability and independence since 1947. Bhutto's votes came largely from her native province, Sind...