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...FREED. ASIF ALI ZARDARI, 52, husband of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto; by the Supreme Court, on $17,000 bail; in Islamabad. Zardari, jailed in 1996 when his wife's government was removed from power, faced up to 22 charges, including tax evasion and conspiracy in the murder of Bhutto's brother, Mir Murtaza. He was acquitted of 14 charges and granted bail on seven when the final case ended last week...
...DIED. ASIM GHAFOOR, Islamic militant allegedly linked to the outlaw group Harakatul Mujahideen; after being shot by police; in Islamabad. Pakistani officials claim that Ghafoor had ties to Amjad Farooqi, a suspected al-Qaeda operative killed in September who was wanted in connection with the 2002 killing of journalist Daniel Pearl as well as two assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf. Deputy inspector general of police Javed Ali Shah Bokhari said Ghafoor "had a role in all terrorist activities orchestrated by [Farooqi...
...should discourage Musharraf from playing a double game with the Taliban. Some influential elements inside the Pakistani intelligence service and the military remain convinced that they can influence events in Afghanistan to Pakistan's benefit by backing the Taliban. Officials in Kabul are perplexed that Pakistan has failed to capture a single top Taliban commander, although U.S. and Afghan officials have evidence that dozens of rebel chiefs are living openly in the Pakistani border towns of Quetta and Peshawar. There is the perception in Kabul that, as one Afghan official put it, "if Islamabad can't have a satellite government...
...Victim Fights Back Your report on "Asia's Heroes" [Oct. 11] included a feature on Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman who successfully fought the injustice of local tribal law. After Mai was gang-raped on the orders of a self-appointed village council (to preserve the tribal honor of a local clan), she courageously pursued her case in the courts despite the threat of further violence. Mai won, and six men involved in her rape were punished; two of them were sentenced to death. That is a tremendous example for women across the world who are suffering from similar atrocities...
...India would never consider substantially re-drawing its boundaries, as Musharraf suggested. Former Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said: "Mapmaking has to stop in South Asia. Such attempts would not be acceptable [even] in disguise." Still, it's a start, and Musharraf's formula was the first time a Pakistani leader has abandoned the key demand of a referendum for Kashmiris. If nothing else, his proposal should give momentum to talks later this month in New Delhi between India's and Pakistan's Prime Ministers. Musharraf's "food for thought," as the President described his remarks at the Iftar banquet...