Word: pervez
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...ancient religious rivalry is depressingly familiar to Pakistan. Human-rights activists say that since the mid-'80s, more than 4,000 people have been killed in Sunni-Shi'ite feuds. Last year, for example, Sunni and Shi'ite gunmen marked each other's doctors and lawyers for assassination. President Pervez Musharraf waved off calls for the federal government to step in to curtail further bloodshed, saying he would refrain from "panic reactions." Fearing more attacks, a banker says he won't let his boys attend Friday sermons: "It's better to miss your prayers than to lose...
...presidential elections after United Democratic Front leader Bingu wa Mutharika was declared the winner. A New Suspect PAKISTAN Security officials said that an al-Qaeda-linked militant thought to have helped organize the kidnapping and murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl masterminded two failed assassination attempts against President Pervez Musharraf in December. Musharraf earlier announced that junior military personnel were involved in the attacks on him. MEANWHILE IN BRUSSELS ... Lost in Translation The European Commission instructed staff to write shorter documents, as the arrival of 10 new member states - taking the number of official languages from 11 to 20 - threatened...
...biggest surprise about your selection was the omission of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf. He represents 145 million people on the subcontinent, and his actions can affect more than a billion people in South Asia. His efforts to bring about peace in the region surpass those of his counterpart in India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was on TIME's list. Musharraf has vigorously pursued negotiated settlements of outstanding issues. He has taken great risks to eradicate terrorism and extremism within his country as well as in Afghanistan. He has worked to alleviate poverty and bring about educational reforms and economic...
...Pakistan's army was surprised, so too were the country's American allies. Under pressure to score a victory in the war on terror as unambiguous as the capture of Saddam Hussein, the Bush Administration prodded Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to send 11,000 troops into the country's semiautonomous tribal area in March on a search-and-destroy mission. The quarry: top Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters believed to be hiding out in tribal lands since being routed from Afghanistan three years ago by U.S.-led coalition forces. Some optimists even thought Osama bin Laden might be plotting...
...places him among the world's most significant figures--is his pursuit of peace with Pakistan while heading the Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party), which rose to power in the 1990s on a wave of Hindu chauvinism. In January the Hindu Vajpayee met Pakistan's Muslim President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad and agreed on talks to try to end a half-century of war and hostility. Anwar Sadat's 1977 mission to Jerusalem is the only other journey in modern history that bears comparison...