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Comparisons between India and Pakistan are out of line. Those who claim that U.S. treatment of India and its rival Pakistan must be equivalent forget the not so slight distinction between liberal democracy and military dictatorship. Only seven years ago the junta led by Pervez Musharraf seized power in Pakistan in a coup d’état. Consider also that leading Pakistani engineer A.Q. Khan confessed to running a nuclear weapons racket with connections to potential “rogue states” Iran and North Korea. To top it all, Osama bin Laden and senior leaders...
...then got into an unmarked aircraft that would be less easily identified by terrorists. And that was before 9/11, the war in Iraq, and the kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, not to mention multiple attempts on the life of the country?s president, Pervez Musharraf...
...Investigations into the attack continue, and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has sworn to bring those responsible to justice. ?This senseless act will not deter our strong resolve to pursue the relentless fight against the evil of terrorism,? he said in a message sent to New Delhi where President Bush is visiting before his trip to Pakistan. ?We all must continue to work together to eliminate this threat...
...forces on the hunt for not only for bin Laden, but those who plot and plan with him." What was left unsaid, of course, was that four and a half years after 9/11, that goal remains as elusive as ever, and Afghan President Karzai and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf have traded barbs in recent days charging the other with not doing enough to crack down on Al Qaeda...
Jaded journalists have come to expect Pakistani announcements of new successes against al-Qaeda whenever President Pervez Musharraf is due to meet with a top U.S. official. And true to form, on Wednesday, just as President Bush was visiting Afghanistan and declaring that "I am confident [bin Laden] will be brought to justice," Pakistan announced that 45 Qaeda-aligned militants had been killed in a raid in the tribal badlands of Waziristan - where bin Laden and his chief lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, are believed to be operating. Announcements of victories against al-Qaeda highlight the primary reason the Bush Administration...