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While there's no doubt of Zardari's sincerity in his hostility toward the militants, he simply does not call the shots in Pakistan - a fact India's leaders may be more intimately aware of than their American counterparts. The Pakistani president's political weakness is not confined to having to defer to the military in all national security matters; he's had a hard time selling Pakistanis in general on the need to wage war on the extremists. The majority of his fellow citizens oppose cooperation with U.S. efforts against the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Even after the Marriott...
...missile strikes on Taliban suspects in the tribal areas have escalated Pakistani hostility to the war on terror, and opposition parties are none too happy about the prospect of their government cooperating with India over the Mumbai massacre. Many Pakistanis see any move to accede to India's public demands as an unwarranted admission of guilt. And any large-scale move against Pakistan-based militants could bring a sharp reaction on the streets. Zardari's government is in a particularly precarious position now that it has been forced to seek an International Monetary Fund bailout to avoid bankruptcy - the conditions...
Unless the Pakistani military can be persuaded that its own interests lie in standing down from confrontation with India and reorienting itself to fight the jihadists, U.S. efforts to contain the crisis will be fraught with difficulty. And it's hard to muster optimism over the prospects for remaking the existential DNA of Pakistan's army, an institution whose centrality to national life has been achieved precisely in the confrontation with India that began at the country's birth. Certainly, the fitful performance of Pakistan's military in response to pressure from the U.S. over Afghanistan is not exactly encouraging...
Indian investigators say they can pin the attacks on Pakistan for a number of reasons: the GPS coordinates of the fishing boat the terrorists used to land in Mumbai lead back to the Pakistani city of Karachi; e-mails as well as a phone call claiming responsibility for the attack trace back to Lahore, also in Pakistan, where the LeT has its civilian front...
Rice has urged Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari and his government to act "with resolve and a real sense of transparency" in dealing with the terrorist groups Pakistan harbors. Zardari, for his part, denied having received any evidence of Pakistani involvement. But the civilian government in Islamabad, like almost all others before it, wields little real power in a state that has always been dominated by the military. "Zardari's government was born with its hands tied," says B. Raman, a noted Indian commentator and columnist...