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...attack on a Pakistani Air Force bus that killed eight military personnel and wounded dozens more south of Islamabad, Thursday, brought this week's death toll in suicide bombings to 15. But the spate of increasingly violent attacks on targets associated with his regime is only one of the many threats confronting the embattled President Pervez Musharraf. Challenges to his authority from the courtrooms of the capital to the rebellious mountains of the northwest have once again raised the specter of a declaration of martial law in Pakistan...
...officers to avoid wearing their uniforms in public or traveling in vehicles bearing military number plates. Though no group has claimed responsibility for the recent attacks, police officials have attributed them - and the attack on Bhutto's motorcade that left 141 dead - to al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists and the Pakistani Taliban currently gaining strength in the lawless tribal areas spanning the border with Afghanistan...
Just possibly, the current crisis will convince doubters of the myriad virtues of trade. Pakistan has only one export industry worth anything: textiles. But anyone now wanting to buy from Pakistan is going to have to pay much higher insurance premiums than they did before Sept. 11. The Pakistani government has asked for a reduction in the tariff on its exports. The Europeans have agreed; the U.S. Administration--lobbied, as ever, by domestic mill owners and their political friends--is still thinking about it. And that's shameful...
...Furthermore, over 86 percent of the detainees at Guantanamo were taken by Northern Alliance and Pakistani forces at a time when the U.S. military was paying large rewards for the capture of suspected enemies. Unless we want foreign bounty hunters to serve as prosecutor, judge, and jury, legitimate judicial oversight is needed...
...brokered a power-sharing deal with President Pervez Musharraf that allowed her to return from an eight-year exile ordered by a former president on charges of corruption. One of Bhutto’s former political advisors expressed concern about her ability to garner the support of the Pakistani people if she cannot travel freely due to security concerns. “This could lead to a civil war situation if terrorists can go out and attack political parties,” said Research Fellow at the Belfer Center Hassan Abbas, who served on both Musharraf and Bhutto?...