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...Pakistani editors invited to break the Ramadan fast last week with President Pervez Musharraf were treated to palm dates, curried pastries and some unexpected news?a radical new approach to Pakistan's bitter, 57-year-old dispute with India over Kashmir...
...Whole New Line Pakistani editors invited to break the Ramadan fast last week with President Pervez Musharraf were treated to palm dates, curried pastries - and a radical new approach to Pakistan's bitter, 57-year-old dispute with India over Kashmir. Pakistan has long insisted on a plebiscite among Kashmiris to determine whether the people of the troubled Himalayan region should be part of India or Pakistan. For just as long, India has refused to hold such a referendum...
...main beneficiaries of the current system. When China and India maxed out on their annual quotas, American buyers often turned to Pakistan. Its garment industry earned two-thirds of the country's export dollars last year. But Arshad fears that at least 60% of the 2 million Pakistanis who work in the ready-made garments sector could lose their jobs in coming years. "The new regime will wipe out thousands of small and medium-size exporters," says Javed Puri, a Pakistani textile exporter...
When Guantánamo prison officials decided last March to release Abdullah Mehsud, 29, a Pakistani hobbled by an artificial leg, they thought he was no security risk. But soon after he returned to the Pakistani borderlands, Mehsud was rallying fellow tribesmen against the U.S. and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. On Oct. 9, Mehsud masterminded the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers, demanding the release of several jailed Islamic militants. Mehsud was several miles away in a mountain hideout last week when Pakistani commandos stormed the mud house where the hostages were held. All five kidnappers and one Chinese hostage died...
...Early last week, Pakistani commandos disguised in turbans and tribal tunics surrounded the mud house where five of Mesud's men were holding the hostages. On Thursday, according to Lieut. General Safdar Hussain, the regional commander, a shot was heard inside the house. Fearing that the militants were executing their captives, the general said, the commandos attacked. All five kidnappers were killed in the ensuing gunfight, along with one hostage, 32-year-old engineer Wang Peng, who died of gunshot wounds. His fellow captive Wang Ende, 49, was rescued alive. Meanwhile, Mesud was several kilometers away, in touch with...