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...result had limited American access to Pakistani military bases. But the refugees were making a tense situation even worse. Though the U.S. had lifted economic sanctions against Pakistan and promised $50 million in U.S. aid, the unrest continued. Last week large crowds moved through the streets of Peshawar and Rawalpindi, burning effigies of Bush. "We grossly underestimate the perils to Pakistan that this represents," says Central Asian scholar S. Frederick Starr. "If you attack, you activate the Afghan fifth column in Pakistan, you activate the Pakistani radical and terrorist organizations, you put the educated, globalist modernists in Pakistan extremely...
...Peshawar On the road down from the Khyber Pass, TIME photographer John Stanmeyer jumps out of our car to take pictures of Pakistani soldiers marching to an old British fort on a craggy hilltop. A narrow-faced man from Pakistani military intelligence (ISI) happens to drive by in a pickup truck and accuses Stanmeyer of being a spy. The two of us are quickly taken to the fort for interrogation. An army officer intercedes and gains our release two hours later; he gestures apologetically at the ISI man, who is fuming over our good luck. The officer cautions: "You know...
...That night, I set out to check my e-mails in Peshawar's old bazaar. The only Internet place is up a dark, winding stairway, past a group of Koranic students weaving mats for the wall of a mosque. At the Internet shop, my driver Raza unabashedly dashes from machine to machine, staring wide-eyed. "Mr. Tim," he pleads, "can you give me computer lesson?" Impressed by his new enthusiasm for technology, I agree. Then I glance over at the other Net aficionados. They're teenagers, wearing baggy salwar kameez outfits and prayer caps, and all of them are staring...
...Back in Peshawar Still no journalists are allowed up the Khyber Pass. I stroll through the old bazaar, past the street of songbirds and goldsmiths, and end up at a mosque where I'm invited inside to talk to the Imam. He assures me that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were carried out by Mossad, the Israeli secret service. But, I protest, the hijackers were mainly Saudis. "Ah," he says triumphantly. "How can you explain that all 4,000 Israelis working at the World Trade Center that morning were mysteriously absent from work...
...Pakistan is deeply ambivalent about its new and unsought role in the war against terrorism - and nowhere is this more clear than in Peshawar, the country's main frontier town on the way to Afghanistan. The people of the Northwestern Frontier are as famous for their ferocity in battle as they are for their hospitality to strangers. On the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, one hour's drive from the border, Peshawar has fought wars and suffered invasions for over 2,000 years. Now as Pakistan braces for the expected U.S. attacks on Afghan territory, the people of Peshawar...