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...second quarter: Long squibs the kickoff, and Jason Miran of Penn FUMBLES the return. There are no flags on the field, but apparently, Harvard was offsides on the play. Sigh...
...Rule Pakistan? The question is paramount and critical at this moment. If the Musharraf-Bhutto deal has fallen through, then Pakistanis are left with an extremely unpopular dictator who nevertheless is the only moderating force on a military-and-security apparatus that many fear harbors extremist elements. Bhutto, whose return to Pakistan was a nod toward democratic ideals, already believes that members of Pakistan's government and intelligence agencies knew about the attack on her homecoming convoy and helped plan it. Musharraf's closest foreign allies have long feared that those same military and intelligence bodies still include officials sympathetic...
...that Bhutto doesn't have support, says Awan, but simply that Islamabad has never been a place where crowds gather. "It's not like Sindh," he says, referring to the southern province whose capital, Karachi, saw some 200,000 supporters gather to greet Bhutto upon her return from exile last month. Bhutto's Pakistan's People Party (PPP) leaders still claim the number was closer to 3 million. "People in Islamabad are not willing to get arrested. The Punjabi police [who are in charge of the capital] are notoriously brutal. And there have already been so many arrests - people...
...have seen Musharraf step down as army chief while maintaining the presidency, with the support of Bhutto?s party. In exchange, Bhutto would have been cleared of as of yet unanswered corruption charges (which she claims were politically motivated), permitted to return after eight years in exile, and allowed to run for the office of Prime Minister, which many assume the populist leader would have easily clinched. Some Pakistanis see her as desperate to be free from those corruption charges. Others say she will do anything to regain...
...later had him executed for killing a political opponent, a charge Benazir and her supporters continue to deny three decades on. This year, as Musharraf's popularity plummeted, a U.S.-approved deal between the President and his former rival cleared the way for Bhutto to return home from exile in Britain and Dubai on the understanding that Musharraf would step down from his army job and then serve another five-year term as President while Bhutto would lead her Pakistan People's Party, the country's biggest, to parliamentary success in early 2008 and serve as Prime Minister. Chief Justice...