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...Pity Pervez Musharraf. For a military dictator torn between the forces of Islamic extremism and international opinion, even a trip to the museum is fraught. When the General opened Pakistan's National Art Gallery in August, he was confronted with gutsy pieces tackling an array of provocative subjects - from burqas to madrasahs to militarism. He paused for a long time at Left Right, a video installation about the omnipresence of Pakistan's army by the young artist Hamra Abbas, who depicts soldiers patrolling land, sea and desert...
...months, by the charismatic radio preacher Maulana Fazlullah, known as the FM mullah, who has spawned a wave of fundamentalist militancy that has swept from the Afghan frontier through the lawless tribal areas of Waziristan and into the settled areas far from the border. The government of President General Pervez Musharraf seems unable to do anything about...
...arrest in Pakistan, so for the time being, he will not be able to travel to Cambridge to receive the award, HLS’s highest honor. The Chief Justice was detained after he convened the Pakistani Supreme Court to declare the national state of emergency imposed by President Pervez Musharraf null. We applaud HLS Dean Elena Kagan for acknowledging heroic efforts of resistance during the calamity in Pakistan. We look forward to joining her in welcoming Chief Justice Chaudhry, who has risked his own well-being to protect the rule of democracy and law in Pakistan, to Cambridge...
...Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte arrived in Pakistan to press President General Pervez Musharraf to lift emergency rule and step down as army chief, opposition parties, led by former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, have renewed calls for the general's ouster. This two-pronged attack on Musharraf's political plans came on the same day that he presided over the swearing-in of a caretaker government to run the country until parliamentary elections slated for early January. Pakistan's parliament dissolved at midnight on Thursday, completing its full five-year term for the first time in the country...
...Some in Washington are looking to the military, and in particular Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani, the deputy chief of the army staff, as a reassuring figure. "On the asset side of the ledger," says one State department official, "We've got a really good relationship with Kiyani. People know him. He has long-term political ambitions and he's patient enough to keep them in the long term...