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Last week, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh joined more than 150 foreign leaders in New York City to kick off this year's session of the United Nations' General Assembly and celebrate the institution's 60th birthday. Singh had a weighty agenda: he talked Kashmir with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, discussed India's nuclear-energy needs with George W. Bush, and lobbied for a permanent seat on an expanded Security Council. (Japan, Germany and Brazil each want one too.) The U.N.'s "structure and decision-making process," he said in an address to the General Assembly, "reflect the world...
...passed centrifuges?parts and complete. I do not exactly remember the number." PERVEZ MUSHARRAF,President of Pakistan, acknowledging for the first time that Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan provided North Korea with centrifuge machines capable of making fuel for an atomic bomb...
...problem is not in Pakistan; the problem is in England." PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, Pakistani President, rejecting criticism of his country as a source of terrorism after the disclosure that at least three of the July 7 London bombers may have visited madrasahs in Pakistan...
Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, must be puzzled. The country's image abroad remains far worse than the reality. The international media give scant coverage to our rapidly expanding economy, with GDP growth of over 8% and so many opportunities that every month another friend of mine seems to join the "brain gain" of those quitting jobs in New York and London to return home. Few stories are written about the dynamic youth culture expressing itself on our new television and radio stations, or through underground events like the massive rave that took place in Lahore last month. Little...
...President Pervez Musharraf responded with a call to oppose "anyone trying to incite hatred." But sectarian violence has worsened under his reign. Musharraf has been reluctant to act against militant groups, largely to avoid alienating the fundamentalist political parties keeping his secular political opposition at bay. "The government does not recognize the threat homegrown terrorists pose to the stability of Pakistan," says Samina Ahmed of the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based NGO. "Isn't it time the government recognized the price of the game being played...