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Plain cussedness has often torpedoed talks between India and Pakistan, especially over Kashmir. In 1999, Pakistan's generals, led by Pervez Musharraf, sabotaged the so-called Lahore accord because they felt the Army had been left out of the loop. The 50-day battle they launched on Kashmir's Line of Control destroyed any chance that agreement might have had of succeeding. Two years later, when President Musharraf journeyed to Agra for a summit with Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the negotiations broke down because the Indians refused to accept the classification of Kashmir as a "disputed territory...
...Early last week, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf ordered his foreign office to find out whether Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee might accept a phone call from Islamabad. The diplomats said he would. Musharraf told Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali to start dialing. During a brief conversation, Jamali, reading from prepared notes, agreed with Vajpayee's earlier assertion that the countries should talk and formally invited him to Pakistan. On Friday, Vajpayee responded by announcing that India would restore full diplomatic relations and air links with Pakistan. The move re-opened the door that Delhi had slammed shut...
...likely to sharpen the agency's focus on a close U.S. ally - Pakistan. A senior U.S. official tells TIME that the CIA is convinced that the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan, played a key role in the development of North Korea's arsenal. Although President Pervez Musharraf stripped Khan, 67, from his post under intense U.S pressure two years ago, his company, A.Q. Khan Research Laboratories, has free-lanced its services around the world with impunity. The State Department in March finally decided it had had enough and slapped sanctions on Khan's company...
Mohammed was interrogated first by Pakistani authorities, who were anxious, says a source, that he might have been planning an assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf. A senior Pakistani intelligence officer denies that Mohammed was tortured. "We used temperature discomfort and sleep deprivation," says this officer, who claims that no more was needed. "Khalid was talking. He was cooperating. He wasn't defiant at all." A few days later, according to Pakistani sources, Mohammed was flown in a U.S. Chinook helicopter to the American air base at Bagram, Afghanistan, north of Kabul. U.S. sources will not confirm that Mohammed...
Shafqat pointed to President Pervez Musharraf’s address at the ARCO Forum last fall as evidence that the country’s leader was “baptized” as a legitimate political figure...