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...PASSED. A BILL permitting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to remain the head of the country's military, a position he promised to relinquish last November; by the lower house of the National Assembly; in Islamabad. The bill was approved by a 190-107 vote, with proponents saying it would bring stability to the country and opponents complaining it would cement the military's dominance of Pakistani politics. The bill is expected to be passed by the Senate...
When U.S. officials at Guantanamo Bay reviewed a list of prisoners in March, they decided to send Abdullah Mesud home. Although the 29-year-old Pakistani had been arrested in northern Afghanistan while fighting for the Taliban, he was hobbled by an artificial leg and judged to be a low security risk, according to Pakistani officials who supervised his release...
...site near the Afghan border. China and Pakistan have close diplomatic and economic ties, and the engineers' capture caused embarrassment in Islamabad and anguish in Beijing. In exchange for his hostages' freedom, Mesud demanded the release of dozens of Islamic militants arrested in a seven-month Pakistani army sweep along the Afghan border...
That won't play in Washington. The Administration wants Pakistan to do more to track bin Laden down but is afraid of endangering what help it does get fighting terrorism. A senior U.S. official mocked the Pakistani offensive as "7,000 to 10,000 Pakistani troops courageously battling 200 al-Qaeda guys to a standstill." As for bin Laden, he is still the figurehead, the most potent symbol of Islamic terrorism. And he still tops America's most-wanted list. --By Tim McGirk/ Kabul. With reporting by Syed Talat Hussain/ Islamabad and Timothy J. Burger/ Washington
...fact, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf pardoned Abdul Qadeer Khan the day after the Pakistani scientist publicly admitted to selling nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea. Khan remains under house arrest, but nearly all his associates are free. The U.S. has not gained access to Khan to figure out what he sold to whom...