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...western state of Haryana had no such effect. Within hours of the blast and fire that killed at least 68 people, most of them Pakistanis, on the Samjhauta (Friendship) Express, politicians from both countries had vowed that the peace process would continue. Such acts, said Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, will only "strengthen the resolve" for "peace between the two countries." Indian officials, meanwhile, sent condolences to victims' families and confirmed that a scheduled meeting between the Pakistani and Indian Foreign Ministers would go ahead the next day as planned...
...Pakistan The U.S. has said that Pakistan will not be offered a deal similar to India's. No matter. Islamabad is already finalizing a nuclear energy cooperation agreement with China that would provide Pakistan with two 300-MW reactors by the end of the year, while President Pervez Musharraf boasted on Dec. 24 that his country would continue to increase its already-strong nuclear defensive capabilities...
...PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, President of Pakistan, charmed the media--including a hilarious stop on The Daily Show--while promoting his aptly titled memoir, In the Line of Fire. Guess he takes those assassination attempts with a sense of humor...
...chafed at a decision to bar a company linked to the Chinese military from taking up a lucrative air cargo contract, apparently over security concerns. And, of course, China remains a close ally of Pakistan, India's archenemy, a friendship Hu will shore up during talks with President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad as soon as he leaves India...
...FREED. Mirza Tahir Hussain, 36, Pakistani-born British Muslim sentenced to be hanged for the 1988 killing of taxi driver Jamshed Khan; after Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf commuted his sentence; in Rawalpindi. Hussain, who said Khan had died after a gun went off during a struggle as the driver tried to sexually assault him, became a cause célèbre among Britain's Pakistani community and earned an appeal for clemency from Prince Charles during a visit to Pakistan last month. "At last," said Hussain's brother Amjad upon his release, "these 18 years of nightmare appear...