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Although the missile strike provoked a round of protests in Pakistan's tribal areas that forced President Pervez Musharraf to distance his government from the operation, cooperation between the U.S. and Pakistan in the hunt for bin Laden has quietly deepened. A Peshawar-based Pakistani intelligence official speaking on condition of anonymity says Washington has an understanding with Islamabad that allows the U.S. to strike within Pakistan's border regions--providing the Americans have actionable intelligence and especially if the Pakistanis won't or can't take firm action. Pakistan's caveat is that it would formally protest such strikes...
Villagers staged angry protests, condemning the U.S. for the killing of innocents. An official in Islamabad worried that demonstrations could spread. The Pakistani government has never had firm control over the borderlands, where many tribes see President Pervez Musharraf as a traitor for cooperating with the U.S. Musharraf is especially sensitive to claims that he allows the U.S. to conduct military operations in Pakistan. U.S. Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker was summoned to the foreign ministry to receive a formal protest. Information Minister Sheik Rashid Ahmed announced, "We will not allow such incidents to reoccur." But U.S. officials insist that some...
...Meanwhile, shadowy Islamic groups ran clandestine camps that trained jihadi volunteers in guerrilla warfare and slipped them across the Line of Control?the unofficial border between the Pakistani and Indian areas of Kashmir?to ambush troops, Hindu civilians and politicians on the Indian side. President Pervez Musharraf, under pressure from the U.S. after 9/11, says he closed the camps in Azad Kashmir. But as recently as last August, according to sources in the militant groups, bands of guerrillas were still crossing over the Line of Control, dodging Indian land mines and patrols...
...will do it ourselves if the world community does not help us." PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, President of Pakistan, asking for $5.2 billion in aid for areas devastated by the Oct. 8 earthquake. Later that week, international donors pledged as much as $5.8 billion to help the 3.3 million people left homeless by the quake...
...will do it ourselves if the world community does not help us." PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, Pakistan's President, asking for $5.2 billion in aid for areas devastated in last month's earthquake. By week's end, international donors had pledged as much as $5.8 billion...