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...group Harakatul Mujahideen; after being shot by police; in Islamabad. Pakistani officials claim that Ghafoor had ties to Amjad Farooqi, a suspected al-Qaeda operative killed in September who was wanted in connection with the 2002 killing of journalist Daniel Pearl as well as two assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf. Deputy inspector general of police Javed Ali Shah Bokhari said Ghafoor "had a role in all terrorist activities orchestrated by [Farooqi...
...next U.S. Administration, handling Afghanistan and Pakistan will require the deft touch of a demolition expert faced with a ticking bomb. In both countries, Washington is gambling on the survival of its chosen favorites?Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf. But this strategy has its risks; both leaders have been the targets of assassins, and there is a shortage of second-string choices suitable to Washington if either Karzai or Musharraf are killed...
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...
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...