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...Leone , where he faces war crimes charges. Sign of Hope KASHMIR India and Pakistan agreed a surprise cease-fire - the first in 14 years - along the Line of Control, their de facto border in the disputed territory. Whether Indian PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee will hold talks with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on the sidelines of a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit in Islamabad in January, however, is unclear. Peace Threat SRI LANKA Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran warned the country's divided leadership he would revive his demands for an independent state if the peace process remained stalled...
...Washington's war against al-Qaeda has given new luster to such poster-children of democracy as Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf, the army chief who anointed himself President after taking power in a coup. Musharraf talks the language of Western modernity and eloquently denounces extremism, but democracy in Pakistan is rationed by his hand. President Bush may rail against Syria's ruthless dictatorship, but his own security agencies happily cooperate with Syria's unlovely secret police in fighting al-Qaeda - Canada is up in arms, right now, over the case of a Syrian-born Canadian arrested in transit...
...Caught in the Middle "Is Pakistan a Friend or a Foe?" that's a good question [Sept. 29]. The answer is complicated. Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is in a difficult situation. He must deal with both Islamic extremists of al-Qaeda hiding in the tribal lands of Afghanistan and Muslim extremists in his own country. As your story reported, there are terrorist training camps in Pakistan, and that makes it very hard for the country to be considered a U.S. ally against global terrorism. Musharraf has a lot of work to do to normalize an explosive situation. Pakistan...
...After President George w. Bush enunciated the U.S. policy that nations were either with America or against it in the war on terrorism, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf had no alternative but to fall in line. He decided to make the best of a bad bargain. Pakistan supported the U.S. because doing so provided an opportunity to get billions of dollars in aid. Pakistan had a completely mercenary approach, and the Americans should realize it. Then there would no problem in understanding whether Pakistan is friend or foe. Vivek Sinha Bangalore...
...Skeptics note that Pakistan has a habit of announcing dramatic antiterrorism moves to coincide with high-level meetings with U.S. officials. At the time of the raid, President Pervez Musharraf had recently returned from U.N. headquarters in New York City, Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali was meeting with President Bush in Washington, and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who had earlier questioned whether Musharraf had the support of the entire Pakistani military, was preparing a trip to Islamabad...