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...between moderate citizens and the fundamentalists who aim to turn the country into an Islamic state. As the hard-line demands intensify, President Pervez Musharraf has backed away from some policies sought by the Bush Administration, such as cracking down on radical religious schools, known as madrasahs, and curbing Pakistani support for the fundamentalist Taliban across the border in Afghanistan. Observers say that Musharraf's retreats on contentious issues have only strengthened the radicals. "The universities reflect what you are seeing in the larger political landscape," says Samina Ahmed, South Asia director for the International Crisis Group, a think tank...
...Ansari, and Ehtasham Siddiqui, of planting some of the bombs that exploded on seven suburban Bombay trains on July 11, killing almost 200; by chief of police A.N. Roy; in Bombay. Police said the attack was carried out by the three men, along with four other Indians and 11 Pakistanis, and claimed the plot was masterminded by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, along with at least two Indian terror groups. Pakistani officials quickly denied any connection to the attacks, calling the charges "baseless...
...Most Sacred Game "It's Not Just Cricket" [Sept. 4] discussed the allegation that the Pakistani team had tampered with the ball during a Test match with England. Oh, Pakistanis, you can do anything-you can ridicule my government, you can scorn my religion, and you can even step on my blue suede shoes. But, please, do not force the holy gem of cricket into disrepute by ball tampering and match fixing. Pam Howe Idar-Oberstein, Germany...
Pervez Musharraf knows how to make a splash with a book tour. In the week that his new memoir, In the Line of Fire, hit stores, the Pakistani President feuded publicly with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, had tea and Twinkies on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, ate dinner at the White House, and was greeted in London by Tony Blair and a leaked British defense document accusing Pakistan's intelligence agency of having ties to al-Qaeda. Somehow, he also managed to squeeze in a chat with TIME in New York...
...debate among the NATO countries was instructive: They agree that Pakistan should be pressured to end its backing of the Taliban and arrest Taliban commanders who operate openly in the Pakistani border city of Quetta, where, NATO says, the command, control and logistical center of the Taliban insurgency is based. But Britain cautioned against openly confronting and pressuring Pakistan, reminding the others of the critical importance of its intelligence cooperation in foiling al-Qaeda plots, most recently the scheme to blow up airliners over the Atlantic...