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Three times, the enemies of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf have attempted to take him out. They tried blowing up his motorcade twice last December. In August, police in Islamabad arrested 10 men who had an arsenal of rockets smuggled from the tribal territory along the Afghanistan border. According to the police, the plan was to launch murderous attacks during Independence Day celebrations on Aug. 14, hitting Musharraf, his Cabinet and the U.S. embassy. And that close shave came only 15 days after a suicide bomber tried to blow up Shaukat Aziz, a Musharraf ally who was sworn in as Prime...
...aggressive campaign against al-Qaeda in Pakistan has taken a toll on the group's top leadership. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the brains behind the Sept. 11 attacks, and several other experienced chiefs have been captured. And President Pervez Musharraf has lately turned up the heat. A State Department official says Pakistan has captured 30 al-Qaeda suspects in the past seven weeks alone...
...Pakistan was a country in crisis: near economic collapse, close to war with India, and threatened by religious militants from within. That sense of crisis caused Pakistanis like myself to support a strong leader like General Pervez Musharraf, despite the clear unconstitutionality and undemocratic nature of his rule...
...March 2004 terrorist summit in the lawless province of Waziristan, described to TIME by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf last week and expounded on by U.S. officials, has become a subject of obsession for authorities in both countries. "The personalities involved, the operations, the fact that a major explosives expert came here and went back," Musharraf said, "all this was extremely significant...
...March 2004 terrorist summit in the lawless province of Waziristan, described to TIME by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf last week and expounded on by U.S. officials, has become a subject of obsession for authorities in both countries. "The personalities involved, the operations, the fact that a major explosives expert came here and went back," Musharraf said, "all this was extremely significant...