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...Responds Your report "Hiding in Plain Sight" [Nov. 29] claimed Pakistani authorities were ignoring Taliban fugitives who have taken refuge in our southern city of Quetta. No Taliban member is welcome in Pakistan. Our country is a key, vital partner of the U.S. in the war on terrorism. President Pervez Musharraf has ordered more than 70,000 troops to police Pakistan's southwestern border with Afghanistan. The President has repeatedly made it clear that he will spare no effort to rid Pakistan of all inimical foreign elements. Talat Waseem Press Counselor Embassy of Pakistan Washington...
...President Hamid Karzai met for the first time, a week after being sworn in. Karzai, the country's first elected leader, asked his Ministers to eschew party politics and focus on rebuilding the war-ravaged nation. Keeping the Fatigues PAKISTAN In a televised address to the nation, President Pervez Musharraf announced that he would not be stepping down as head of the army, despite his December 2003 pledge to do so. Musharraf, who made the promise as part of a deal with hard-line religious parties over constitutional reform, said his decision would assist the development of democracy...
...President Pervez Musharraf's government has done little to capture the many Taliban commanders who have fled into hiding in the country, according to Afghan officials and Taliban fighters and sympathizers in the frontier Pakistani cities of Quetta and Peshawar. Those exiles include Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed mullah who formerly led the Taliban. Pakistan's reluctance, according to a senior Kabul official, stems from its "nostalgia" for when Afghanistan was firmly within its orbit of influence. Letting the Taliban remain free gives Pakistan a card to play if or when the U.S. decides to vacate Afghanistan. "If money...
...group Harakatul Mujahideen; after being shot by police; in Islamabad. Pakistani officials claim that Ghafoor had ties to Amjad Farooqi, a suspected al-Qaeda operative killed in September who was wanted in connection with the 2002 killing of journalist Daniel Pearl as well as two assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf. Deputy inspector general of police Javed Ali Shah Bokhari said Ghafoor "had a role in all terrorist activities orchestrated by [Farooqi...
...next U.S. Administration, handling Afghanistan and Pakistan will require the deft touch of a demolition expert faced with a ticking bomb. In both countries, Washington is gambling on the survival of its chosen favorites?Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf. But this strategy has its risks; both leaders have been the targets of assassins, and there is a shortage of second-string choices suitable to Washington if either Karzai or Musharraf are killed...