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...nation building"--now says "we should not simply leave after a military objective has been achieved," and sees a role for the U.N. in "the stabilization of" a new government in postwar Afghanistan. As a candidate, Bush couldn't name the President of Pakistan; now he speaks of General Pervez Musharraf and other crucial Muslim leaders with the fluency of someone like, well, his father. He used to campaign against Washington bureaucrats, and he promised to balance the budget by keeping government spending in check; now he is building new federal agencies and pushing for new investigative powers, proposing billion...
Iran and Pakistan are particularly interested in the future shape of Afghanistan's government. Pakistan despises the Northern Alliance because of its tilt against the Pashtun (also represented in Pakistan), its ties to archrival India and its disastrous rule of Kabul from 1992 to '96. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is blunt: "Their return would mean a return to anarchy and criminal killing." For its part, Iran, whose Muslims belong mainly to the Shi'ite branch of Islam, has backed members of the Northern Alliance representing Afghanistan's Shi'ite minority. On the sidelines of last week's meeting...
...Taliban had stage-managed three small but noisy demonstrations by school children. Led by their teachers and some village elders, the boys shouted anti-U.S. and pro-Taliban slogans and vowed to wage jihad for the glory of Islam and defense of Afghanistan. Pakistan's military leader, General Pervez Musharraf, was also a target of their ire for helping the U.S. attack Afghanistan. In fact, some of the villagers in Khrum and in roadside bazaars along the way made no secret at their displeasure over the presence of Pakistani journalists in our group. Earlier, aggrieved Khrum villagers had tried...
That's the problem. Though Pakistan's military ruler, President Pervez Musharraf, offered swift declarations of full intelligence sharing, some U.S. officials tell TIME they aren't sure which side the ISI is really on. The CIA and the Pentagon have long been split on ISI's reliability. Islamabad pleased the CIA by extraditing three key terrorists in recent years. But as TIME reported 18 months ago, a 1999 CIA plot to train 60 Pakistani commandos to snatch bin Laden went nowhere when the ISI dragged its feet. "They didn't do squat," says an American close to the operation...
...Armed with the report, Blair visited President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, President Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan and Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in New Delhi to reinforce their support for international moves against bin Laden. Musharraf affirmed Pakistan's belief in the evidence of the U.S. dossier and was offered an aid package and military support in return. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld set out on a tour of the Middle East, touching down in Saudi Arabia, Oman and Egypt for consultations before moving on to Uzbekistan, which agreed to allow U.S. forces to use one of its airbases...