Word: zardari
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...problem for newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari is that preventing terrorism while maintaining ties with Washington means reconciling a growing number of contradictions. American impatience with Pakistan's faltering campaign against militants on the nation's Afghan border has led U.S. forces to launch raids into Pakistani territory--raids that Zardari believes will alienate border tribes, sour relations with Pakistan's mercurial army and anger the public. The paradox is beginning to turn nasty. Two days after the bombing, U.S. helicopters seeking to cross the border were repulsed by gunfire from Pakistani troops and local tribesmen...
Ousted President Pervez Musharraf once described balancing such demands as "tightrope-walking." Now the rope has grown slender, and Zardari will have to tread it amid fierce winds. More than 7 in 10 Pakistanis oppose military cooperation with the U.S. For many, the fight has always been an American war. Zardari must change that perception, and one way to do that is to use the latest attack--whose victims were overwhelmingly Pakistani--to turn public opinion...
Three miles away, in Bhutto's country home, her widower and political heir mounted a platform to deal with the implications of the other large movement of people. He warned against war and appealed for peace through dialogue. "War," President Asif Ali Zardari said in a live televised address, would prove disastrous for "the whole region." Dressed in a long black coat and gripping the podium firmly with both hands, an unsmiling Zardari pushed back against what has over recent weeks been seen in Pakistan as pressure from Washington and New Delhi. "I want to tell the oldest democracy...
...Zardari leads a government whose promise has faded over the past year, in spite of a heady few weeks of triumph after undoing the military leadership of former President Pervez Musharraf. Now Zardari has to deal with Indian charges not only that the Mumbai assailants used Pakistan as their base to organize their attacks but that Pakistan's shadowy but powerful military spy outfit, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), may once again be linked to the radicals allegedly behind the late November assault on India's financial center. The old, poisonous contest between civilian and military leadership seems...
Since the Mumbai attacks, Zardari's government has maintained that it has acted responsibly, cracking down on members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group blamed for the attacks, and Jamaat-ud-Dawa, its affiliate charity. In response to increasingly vocal demands from New Delhi that Islamabad act more decisively, Zardari's government has argued that it cannot take any more action until it is provided with credible evidence - something Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee says his government has already provided. (See pictures of Mumbai sifting through the rubble...