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...domestic targets within Pakistan. The warning was not a surprise, given the number of terrorist attacks that Afghanistan's neighbor has suffered this year. In February, U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl was murdered; in March, five people including two Americans were killed in an Islamabad church; in April, President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escaped assassination; in May, 11 French citizens died in a bus bombing; in June, an attack outside the U.S. consulate in Karachi killed 12 Pakistanis; and in August, a Christian hospital was attacked...
...Pakistan, which had long been a principal hub for militants, armed Sunni extremist movements had enjoyed the complicity of successive governments. But General Pervez Musharraf has decided to smash these movements in exchange for strong backing by the U.S. It will be a long, hard haul. As the killings of American journalist Daniel Pearl and 11 French engineers in Karachi demonstrate, General Musharraf is not yet out of the woods--especially given Pakistan's endemic state of cold war with India over Kashmir. But one year after Sept. 11, Southwest Asia has neither exploded nor risen up at the instigation...
Person of the Week Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has granted himself sweeping new constitutional powers that strengthen his ability to thwart political opponents, including exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Musharraf, an army general, still maintains he is a force for democracy in Pakistan. But there can be no fair elections under his reforms...
...cardinal rules of battle is to capture the high ground and blast away at the enemy below. Perhaps remembering his days as an army commando, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan is employing the same tactic on his country's politicians. On Aug. 21, he clamped 29 new amendments onto Pakistan's Constitution? legal alterations that his critics say are designed to make his lofty position unassailable...
People like Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf have only one thing on their mind: how to survive and stay in power, which Musharraf grabbed in a coup in 1999 [WORLD, July 22]. He nurtured the Taliban in his country until the very last minute. His change of course after Sept. 11 was out of compulsion, not conviction. He had no choice when President Bush gave him an ultimatum. He now depends on American support for his survival. How long will it take the U.S. to understand that with friends like Musharraf, it needs no enemies? AHMED I. FAROOQUE Murfreesboro, Tenn...