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...days Bhutto had planned to lead a rally in the nearby town of Rawalpindi to celebrate her return to Islamabad, the nation's capital, but when President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule last Saturday, the rally morphed into an anti-emergency protest. By Friday morning, however, the protest was hardly able to get off the ground. Overnight, police blocked all private vehicles from entering Ralwalpindi, spread barbed wire across the streets of the protest venue and flooded the park grounds where she was to speak in order to prevent supporters from sitting on the ground. A few hundred protesters clashed...
American support for president Pervez Musharraf has always come with a cover story to gloss over the awkward fact that one of the U.S.'s most important allies happens to be a military dictator. General Musharraf may have seized power in a coup, say his defenders in Washington, but he's our sort of guy, the kind of man we need in the fight against terrorism--and, by the way, he has always said he will return his country to democracy. In other words, the Pakistani strongman is crucial to both of the U.S.'s key goals in the Muslim...
After increasing pressure from both the international community and his own people, Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf announced today in Islamabad that elections would be held before February 15, and that he would soon be doffing his controversial military uniform. If the country didn't exactly erupt into shouts of jubilation, there was certainly a collective sigh of relief, as the announcement presages an end to a draconian regime of martial law that has plagued the country since Saturday. The White House responded with praise - "We think it is a good thing that President Musharraf has clarified the election date...
...student, involvement in the events has been less of a choice. Samad Khurram ’09, a Harvard undergraduate taking time off in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, has witnessed the events firsthand, and has protested against President Pervez Musharraf’s government...
...position is, like the U.S. position on Russian nukes, based on trust - on high-level, personal contacts between military commanders on both sides. For now, Washington can maintain that line about Pakistan because that country's two highest military leaders have close ties to the U.S. or Britain. General Pervez Musharraf, who is also President, was trained in England, and his likely military successor General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani was trained in the U.S. Soon, however, that trust and fellow-feeling will no longer be available...