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...tolerate--and even encourage--militancy by the Taliban, which Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI, helped create in the mid-1990s in a bid to make Afghanistan a client state. At the highest levels, Pakistan's Establishment remains "nostalgic" for the Taliban, says a Western diplomat. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has cooperated in the hunt for al-Qaeda's top officials but has shown less enthusiasm for rooting out the Taliban. Until Pakistan's security services stop sheltering Taliban leaders, U.S. officials say, Afghanistan will never be free from the threat of their return. U.S. intelligence officials in Washington told...
...Tight Spot in Pakistan Your story about attempts on the life of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf showed what a precarious position he is in [Jan 12]. His support of the U.S. in the war in Afghanistan and his efforts to curb the influence of Islamic fundamentalists and extremists in Pakistan, in accordance with the wishes of the White House, do not make him very popular among these groups. With the security situation worsening in the region and Pakistan's democratic leadership not yet very stable, there is a risk that the country and its nuclear capabilities may fall into...
...Nobody comes inside and checks our things. We check them ourselves." PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, Pakistani President, rejecting any U.N. supervision of Pakistan's nuclear program, following revelations that its nuclear secrets had been illegally passed to other nations...
...building the country's nuclear bomb. But last week Khan, a hero to Pakistanis and many others in the Islamic world, came on the air, ashen and visibly shaken, to confess that he had sold Pakistan's nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea. He begged for President Pervez Musharraf's pardon--and, to the chagrin of many Western intelligence agencies that regard Khan as the world's most dangerous nuclear proliferator, it was granted the next day. "He has made mistakes, but he is our hero," said Musharraf...
Like many Pakistanis, I am unsure of how to react to the proliferation scandal surrounding Abdul Qadeer Khan, the "father of the Islamic Bomb." Khan admitted last week to providing nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea but was pardoned by Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf. The case exposes deep conflicts in my feelings about my country, our policies and the direction we are taking...