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...flags of Pakistan's rival political parties waved, for once, in unison. Members of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, of Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League, of conservative Jammat Islamia and fundamentalist Jamiat Ulema Islam, were out in full force, as were thousands of ordinary Pakistanis. Rauf Naizi, a 33-year-old farmer, had been waiting hours for the Chief Justice to pass through Haripur, the halfway point on Chaudhry's route. "The government rents crowds for their rallies, but we are not getting money or food to be here," he said. "We come just...
...into a party bereft of fresh people and ideas, and one that also appears lamentably out of sync with India's new dynamism. "What this election is about is whether we see the historic collapse of Congress," says politics expert Professor Achin Vanaik of New Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia university. "It's about whether the vote kills Congress...
...worst-ever result. Opinion polls in India are known primarily for their inaccuracy, but this year they broadly predict the BJP alliance will hold or increase its majority and that Congress will at best hold its share of seats. The BJP, says Vanaik of Jamia Millia Islamia, "will become the fulcrum of Indian politics...
...final analysis, be held to account," wrote the moderate Hindu newspaper. So far, however, the BJP has shown little appetite for introspection or candor on the subject of its own culpability. That's a mistake, says Mushirul Hasan, a professor of history at Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia University. "The government should say, 'This could be the result of what happened in Gujarat.' Then people would see that they were taking a fairly decent position instead of trying to brush it under the carpet...
...GROUND U.S. and Philippine intelligence agents are sniffing out al-Qaeda cells. Three Jordanians and one Palestinian who all had lived in the country for a decade were arrested late last year, suspected of planning attacks. Jemaah Islamia has been plotting strikes all over the region--members were caught in Singapore last year. "I think the Americans need a launching pad and a listening post in Asia," says a foreign diplomat in Manila. "What better place than the Philippines...