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...past quarter-century, the Saudis have financed jihadist movements and radical schools throughout the Islamic world. They have changed the very nature of Islamic practice-making it less tolerant-in formerly moderate countries like Pakistan. The recent discovery that a Pakistani ring supplied some of the world's worst governments with nuclear technology only served to emphasize the contradictory nature of our "friendship" with that fragile country. "It's true the Pakistanis have helped us to capture some of the leading al-Qaeda figures," says Jessica Stern of Harvard, a terrorism expert. "But you also have to wonder...
...Nobody comes inside and checks our things. We check them ourselves." General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani President, rejecting the U.N.'s request to supervise Pakistan's nuclear program...
...moral outrage at the U.S., and this work is all the better for it. Sanjeev Sharma Formby, England Hope for Kashmir Your report on attempts on the life of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf [Jan. 12] noted that he had declared a unilateral cease-fire along the line dividing Pakistani and Indian forces in Kashmir. That Pakistan "might not insist on a plebiscite in Kashmir to resolve the dispute" bodes well for bringing peace between India and Pakistan. The time might be ripe to explore the idea of making the Line of Control (LOC) dividing Indian-held Kashmir from Pakistani-held...
...high-profile criminal allowed to run a terrorist network from behind bars? Pakistani authorities won't comment, nor will they admit that the suspected contacts were the reason Sheikh was moved. An Interior Ministry official says Sheikh was moved because of fears that members of his terrorist group had bribed guards at Hyderabad prison and were plotting to spring their leader...
Sheikh, 30, the British-raised scion of an influential Pakistani family, is being interrogated about his links to the suspected bombers. And he has been abruptly transferred from his prison cell in Hyderabad, in southern Pakistan, to Rawalpindi, near the army headquarters where the assassination probe is being conducted. The switch was made after a search of his cell found evidence that Sheikh, while imprisoned, had kept tabs on his old terrorist gang through letters and cell phone conversations, a Hyderabad police official told TIME. Sheikh had also been allowed visits from his former radical-Islamic comrades, this official says...