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...Meanwhile, shadowy Islamic groups ran clandestine camps that trained jihadi volunteers in guerrilla warfare and slipped them across the Line of Control?the unofficial border between the Pakistani and Indian areas of Kashmir?to ambush troops, Hindu civilians and politicians on the Indian side. President Pervez Musharraf, under pressure from the U.S. after 9/11, says he closed the camps in Azad Kashmir. But as recently as last August, according to sources in the militant groups, bands of guerrillas were still crossing over the Line of Control, dodging Indian land mines and patrols...
...will do it ourselves if the world community does not help us." PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, President of Pakistan, asking for $5.2 billion in aid for areas devastated by the Oct. 8 earthquake. Later that week, international donors pledged as much as $5.8 billion to help the 3.3 million people left homeless by the quake...
...will do it ourselves if the world community does not help us." PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, Pakistan's President, asking for $5.2 billion in aid for areas devastated in last month's earthquake. By week's end, international donors had pledged as much as $5.8 billion...
...problem with the values of the U.S.,” he said. The panelists also discussed Arab attitudes toward America’s attempts to spread democracy in the region. Sharwa said there is widespread bitterness about America’s decision to support dictators, including Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, while preaching democracy in the Middle East. And Telhami presented a poll he administered in 2004 that showed that most Arabs thought the Middle East was less democratic after the Iraq War. He said data reveals that Arabs believe U.S. policy in the Middle East is motivated not by democracy...
...positive effect of the massive Oct. 8 Kashmir earthquake has been the hole it has torn in the heavily fortified frontline separating Indian and Pakistani forces in the Himalayan territory. The nuclear-armed neighbors have been locked in conflict over Kashmir since 1947, but on Tuesday Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf eased tensions by offering to open the Line of the Control-the de facto border-so that Kashmiris on both sides can help their relatives harmed by the quake...