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...biggest surprise about your selection was the omission of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf. He represents 145 million people on the subcontinent, and his actions can affect more than a billion people in South Asia. His efforts to bring about peace in the region surpass those of his counterpart in India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was on TIME's list. Musharraf has vigorously pursued negotiated settlements of outstanding issues. He has taken great risks to eradicate terrorism and extremism within his country as well as in Afghanistan. He has worked to alleviate poverty and bring about educational reforms and economic...
...Pakistan's army was surprised, so too were the country's American allies. Under pressure to score a victory in the war on terror as unambiguous as the capture of Saddam Hussein, the Bush Administration prodded Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to send 11,000 troops into the country's semiautonomous tribal area in March on a search-and-destroy mission. The quarry: top Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters believed to be hiding out in tribal lands since being routed from Afghanistan three years ago by U.S.-led coalition forces. Some optimists even thought Osama bin Laden might be plotting...
...places him among the world's most significant figures--is his pursuit of peace with Pakistan while heading the Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party), which rose to power in the 1990s on a wave of Hindu chauvinism. In January the Hindu Vajpayee met Pakistan's Muslim President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad and agreed on talks to try to end a half-century of war and hostility. Anwar Sadat's 1977 mission to Jerusalem is the only other journey in modern history that bears comparison...
...Over in Pakistan, we find President Pervez Musharraf, an enlightened military dictator who has been embraced as a major strategic ally of the U.S. for his cooperation in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. That support is probably the reason Washington seems to have accepted the fiction that Pakistan's profligate nuclear proliferation over the past decade was all the work of a single rogue scientist who supposedly managed to export the country's nuclear weapons technology unbeknownst to the military - and who, in turn, appears to have also been forgiven after appearing on TV in Pakistan and saying...
...pounced on an informer's tip that al-Qaeda sympathizers were hiding with foreign militants in the village of Kalosha. Before dawn last Tuesday, 400 members of Pakistan's Frontier Corps swooped in, only to be ambushed by heavy fire; at least 22 troops died. In response, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf ordered 8,000 troops to converge on a cluster of villages deep in South Waziristan, drawing a cordon around 20 sq. mi. of hills and apple orchards dotted with mud fortresses. Somewhere inside, Musharraf announced, his forces had surrounded a "high-value target." Soon a variety of sources were...