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...light has fallen on the mystery surrounding the death of Muhi A Din Sharif, the Hamas bombmaker whose body was found naked outside an explosives lab in Ramallah, in the West Bank, on March 29. The Palestinian Authority maintains Sharif was shot and then blown up in an inside job; two Hamas men remain in a Palestinian jail accused of the crime. Other Palestinians blamed Israel. But after Yasser Arafat ordered Palestinian officials to turn over to Israeli police the two Kalashnikov bullets found in Sharif?s chest, new weight has been given to a different theory. Israeli forensics experts...
...glimmer of hope among aides to PRESIDENT CLINTON that the diplomatic and economic carrots they're offering may have bought them at least a week's delay before Pakistan decides whether or not to detonate a nuclear device. Pakistani officials have told the State Department that Prime Minister NAWAZ SHARIF will send a delegation to Washington at the end of May to discuss how India's nuclear tests two weeks ago have affected their security concerns. American officials believe it's unlikely Islamabad would explode its bomb before that meeting. Oddly, this restraint is making India nervous, as shown...
...official: Pakistan has followed her neighbor into the nuclear club. "Today we have settled the score with India," Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif declared on Pakistani television. And it truly is a tit-for-tat: Five atomic devices were detonated at the Pakistani test site near the Iran-Afghanistan border, matching India bomb for bomb. Such an overtly macho action is hardly unusual in subcontinental politics. As TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says: "Pakistan is trying to return to the status quo ante...
...that, the Muslim nation has to suffer another kind of tit-for-tat. President Clinton, who spent Wednesday night begging Sharif not to go ahead with the blasts, has already pledged to deliver the same kind of punishments imposed on India. The effects on Islamabad -- still saddled with sanctions for trading missiles with China -- will be exponentially greater. And that's not counting the crippling cost of a now inevitable subcontinental arms race. Back in 1974, Pakistani prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto vowed his country would go nuclear even if his people had to "eat grass." Now the nukes...
...main argument Talbott used on Sharif was that he should "gain the moral high ground" by showing restraint. Pakistan's historical reliance on military rule has stood poorly in the international arena against India's freewheeling democracy, and this gives Islamabad a rare chance to show itself as the more mature, responsible power. But Pakistan's position is decidedly difficult. Islamabad considers India's tests a provocative act. It is already straining to compete in conventional military power. The populace and opposition politicians are clamoring to even the score. For Pakistan to refrain would be a humiliating retreat from...