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...over Bhutto by offering to drop corruption charges against her and her husband. Under the deal, the insider says, Zardari would be freed and sent into exile while Bhutto would be allowed back into Pakistan after two years to resume politics. In the end, losing ppp candidate Shah Mahmood Quereshi has alleged publicly, Musharraf turned to simpler tactics: using threats and bribes to persuade a few of Bhutto's assemblymen to switch loyalties and vote for Jamali. --By Tim McGirk
...against the militia, but the tribal elders who wanted to resist were paid off to stay quiet and accept it. Some elders and groups got as much as 100,000 rupees [$1,700], and the rest of us got either 5,000 rupees [$83] or 10,000 rupees [$170]," Shah Hakim Mizhdua, a local resident, told TIME before another man interrupted, barking, "Shut up! I haven't been paid yet." Told of the spending spree, Afghan intelligence officials had no doubt where the cash came from. "While we're broke, the Taliban and al-Qaeda are flush," says an intelligence...
...just 172 of the 329 votes cast. And even that thinnest of margins was suspect: a rule forbidding party defections was waived at Musharraf's behest, so that 10 PPP legislators could switch sides and back the army's man. "Democratic values have failed today," lamented Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the PPP's losing prime ministerial candidate, who claims his supporters were either threatened or offered top government jobs in return for crossing over. These legislators countered that they jumped over altruistically to break the deadlock on choosing a Prime Minister...
...calling itself Warriors of the Boer Nation claimed responsibility for last month's Soweto bombings, which killed one woman. PAKISTAN Narrow Victory After some arm-twisting by military ruler Pervez Musharraf, the National Assembly chose Zafarullah Jamali as Prime Minister, the first since a 1999 military coup. Losing candidate Shah Mahmood Quereshi claimed Musharraf used threats and bribes to persuade some assemblymen to switch sides. A last-minute waiver of rules forbidding party defections allowed Jamali to scrape through on a single-vote majority. Although he has the dictator's backing, Jamali's government is expected to be hamstrung...
...apprehended in Hong Kong were two Pakistanis from Peshawar, Sayed Mustajab Shah, 54, and Muhammad Abid Afridi, 29, and Ilyas Ali, 55, a U.S. passport holder who lived in Minnesota from 1974 through 2001. In April, Ali allegedly started negotiations in San Diego to sell hashish and heroin to a buyer, who happened to be an undercover FBI agent. Apparently he then got on a plane to Pakistan to gather his two friends. On Sept. 15, say court papers, the threesome flew from Karachi to Hong Kong and checked into three rooms at the marble-clad Conrad Hotel, where...