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...disease. If further trials are successful, GlaxoSmithKline, which developed the vaccine in partnership with the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, hopes to get a license for commercial production by 2010. Strengthening His Grip PAKISTAN Opposition parties decried as unconstitutional a bill passed by the lower house of Parliament enabling President Pervez Musharraf to remain as head of the army. Musharraf pledged in December 2003 to step down as military chief at the end of this year. The opposition said that such a constitutional change required two-thirds of the vote; the bill passed by a simple majority...
...fact, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf pardoned Abdul Qadeer Khan the day after the Pakistani scientist publicly admitted to selling nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea. Khan remains under house arrest, but nearly all his associates are free. The U.S. has not gained access to Khan to figure out what he sold to whom...
Performance of the Week Relations between India and Pakistan got a boost last week after some hotel hopping diplomacy in New York City. First, INDIAN PRIME MINISTER MANMOHAN SINGH traveled to the Roosevelt Hotel to meet PAKISTAN PRESIDENT PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, who gave him a painting of Singh's boyhood hometown, the village of Gah in Pakistan's Punjab province, and one of his old report cards. Then the two men had a one-on-one meeting without aides that lasted an hour. Later in the day, Musharraf traveled five blocks to Singh's hotel, the New York Palace, where...
...next did better, with co-organizer Tariq Amanullah proudly announcing the sale of 10,000 tickets. That was on Sept. 8, 2001. Three days later, Amanullah, a finance executive, was one of the dozens of Muslims who died in the World Trade Center. After that, observed ICNA's Farhan Pervez, "we couldn't do it for a time." But this year they decided to revive it. "It'll be a fun day for people to enjoy an environment they're comfortable in," said Pervez. "We're not trying to make a statement...
...clerics like Pakistan's Maulana Abdul Aziz with a potent recruiting tool. Every Friday at the so-called Red Mosque, which sits a mile from the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, Aziz incites his followers to take up arms against the U.S. The government of President Pervez Musharraf has told Aziz to tone down his rhetoric, but he has refused. "I told them that my God is Allah, not Bush or Musharraf," he says. "I openly tell my students to go for jihad, to fight for Muslims and punish those who have occupied Muslim lands...