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Hundreds of lawyers launched a nationwide, two-day protest to demand the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf, whose dismissal of 60 senior judges last year prompted earlier lawyer-led rioting. The "long march" to Islamabad is the first large-scale protest against the new, democratically elected government, which had pledged to reinstate the judges...
...Meanwhile, it seems obvious that military intervention in Iraq has sent shockwaves through the Islamic world. In November of last year, Bush ally Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, suspending that state’s constitution and silencing the dissent that arrives, organically, with true democracy. The one-time reformist hope for troubled Pakistanis—opposition leader Benazir Bhutto ’73, long in exile—came to a tragic end in January, when the former Prime Minister was assassinated on campaign in Rawalpindi. The media attention that swirled...
...India and Pakistan should work on trade and transport links and deal with the issue of Kashmir later. Ministers from the two countries are expected to meet in a few days as part of an ongoing dialogue aimed at strengthening ties. But Pakistan's leadership is split between President Pervez Musharraf and a fractious new coalition government, which overwhelmingly defeated Musharraf's party in February elections. Pakistan's intelligence and security agencies, long suspected of helping anti-Indian militants, are another factor and may not like the growing détente...
Allow President Pervez Musharraf a little chuckle: The general had always rationalized his military rule in Pakistan by claiming that the country's civilian politicians were too feckless and self-serving to govern effectively. And he may be feeling vindicated by the collapse of the coalition that took power in March after Pakistan's electorate delivered a stinging rebuke to Musharraf. On Monday, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated a new season of political instability by announcing that his Pakistani Muslim League (PML-N) would withdraw on Tuesday from the government led by the Pakistan People's Party...
...Since assuming power last month, the government has embarked on a radical new approach to extremism that favors reconciliation over the military force that was the hallmark of President Pervez Musharraf's strategy for the past several years. Western diplomats have watched from the sidelines with unease. While they encourage reconciliation with low-level militants and tribal leaders, when it comes to al-Qaeda and top-level commanders, "you have got to draw the line," says one. "We have lists of people that are probably irreconcilable...