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...Pakistan was a country in crisis: near economic collapse, close to war with India, and threatened by religious militants from within. That sense of crisis caused Pakistanis like myself to support a strong leader like General Pervez Musharraf, despite the clear unconstitutionality and undemocratic nature of his rule...
...March 2004 terrorist summit in the lawless province of Waziristan, described to TIME by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf last week and expounded on by U.S. officials, has become a subject of obsession for authorities in both countries. "The personalities involved, the operations, the fact that a major explosives expert came here and went back," Musharraf said, "all this was extremely significant...
...look at Pakistan, this is really a ticking time bomb,” Allison said. “It’s hanging by the thread of Gen. Pervez Musharraf. And he’s twice been within a second and a half of assassination the last six months...
...FORCED TO RESIGN. ZAFARAULLAH KHAN JAMALI, 60, Prime Minister of Pakistan, after 19 months in office; in Islamabad. The country's strongman President Pervez Musharraf was displeased with Jamali for failing to endorse his policies and shield him from an increasingly restive Parliament. Jamali will be replaced by ruling Pakistan Muslim League party president Chaudry Shujat Hussain, regarded as more obedient to Musharraf...
...remains a tolerant country with a majority of its people supporting secular viewpoints. It has a Muslim President and now a Sikh Prime Minister. The irony of the subcontinent is that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India was born in the western Punjab, now part of Pakistan, and President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan was born in India. Vearesh Sharma Toronto...