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...week. Afghan President Hamid Karzai is vexed by the refuge Taliban leaders have found in Pakistan's northwestern provinces. "The Afghans are convinced that the Pakistanis know where these Taliban leaders are--but they won't catch them," a diplomat explains. It was only after Karzai and Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf spoke on the telephone last Thursday--prompted by U.S. pressure, say diplomats--that the border crisis was defused. According to sources in Kabul and Islamabad, military operations against suspected al-Qaeda hideouts have resumed. --By Tim McGirk
...Faisal Saleh Hayat, Pakistan's Interior Minister, insists that "our focus is equally on al-Qaeda and on the Taliban." President Pervez Musharraf has praised his security forces for capturing 10 Taliban leaders. He also sent Pakistani soldiers into parts of N.W.F.P. where they hadn't been "for over a century." But that late-June campaign stemmed from reports that bin Laden was in the area. A Pakistani intelligence source near Chaman says his orders are "not to harass nor appease" the Taliban but to let them...
...Sectarianism leaves ugly psychological scars, promulgating waves of violence. After the Quetta attack, enraged Shi'ites set fire to vehicles, banks and hospitals. City officials said Shi'ites also beat a Sunni student to death. President Pervez Musharraf was in Paris when he heard the news, winding up a trip to America and Europe during which he'd been showered with praise for his role in the war against terror. Constituents at home, especially in the restive provinces bordering Afghanistan, are less likely to give him such a warm welcome. Each terror attack on home soil can also be interpreted...
...While India was cozying up to China, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf spent the week in the opposite hemisphere cementing ties with the U.S. During a trip to Camp David, Musharraf was rewarded by President George W. Bush for his support in the war on terror with a five-year, $3 billion aid package...
Once again, Pakistan's mullahs are on a collision course with President Pervez Musharraf. In the latest clash, on June 2, religious groups that control Pakistan's Northwest Frontier province declared that Shari'a law would be enforced in their territory?superceding the British-style legal system that is Pakistan's law of the land. Shari'a is the strict religious code that governs Islam. From now on, Arabic, the language of the Koran, will be obligatory in schools; girls 12 years and older will have to wear the head-to-toe veil known as the burqa, and women will...