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This works out rather well for the national leaders involved. President Pervez Musharraf, who has cracked down on Islamist militancy under U.S. pressure, is reluctant to further annoy Pakistan's well-armed radicals. Already, police and several investigators have been threatened. An attack on a police bus carrying 20 militants left one dead, and gunmen believed to be Sunni Muslims slaughtered 11 Shi'a worshippers at a mosque in Rawalpindi. The U.S., for its part, has ample reason not to rush the extradition of Pearl's murderers. Some in the Administration are worried that forcing the issue would be counterproductive...
...savage end to the senseless crime left families and newsrooms and governments reeling. Pearl was the victim, but Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf--despised by some in his country for having abandoned his extremist allies in favor of the U.S.--may have been just as much a target. News of Pearl's murder reminded us what an ominous storm Pakistan is, with war at its edges and zealots in hiding and a President willing to risk everything by siding with the U.S. in its war against terror. His effort to drag Pakistan away from its tradition of fostering religious militancy...
PAKISTAN Possible Handover As police continued to search for the killers of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, President Pervez Musharraf agreed in principle to hand chief suspect Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh over to the U.S. for trial, though it's unlikely to happen. The State Department announced a $5 million reward for information leading to the capture and conviction of those responsible for Pearl's kidnap and murder...
...identification of Saeed was a sorely needed break for Pakistani investigators, coming as it did a week before President Pervez Musharraf was due to visit Washington. Many days had passed with no credible word from the kidnappers, and a series of miscues and hoax e-mails had thrown investigators off. It had become clear to the police that their first suspect, the militant Pir Mubarak Shah Gilani, whom Pearl was expecting to meet when he was abducted, was innocent. Progress came with the arrest last week in Karachi of three men who allegedly e-mailed demands for Pearl's release...
...General Pervez Musharraf is ready to collect his reward. Pakistan's leader will meet with President Bush at the White House today, and he can expect considerable U.S. economic and political support to come his way for the strategic choices he has made since September 11. The U.S. will help, because the alternative is to let the government of a nuclear-armed state collapse...