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Before the presidential motorcade passed through, traffic on the street was blocked off. But the plotters had thought of that. They had parked their two explosives-packed vehicles in advance at separate gas stations on Jhanda Chichi Road in Rawalpindi. As the convoy carrying Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf approached, the suicide drivers sped into action. A guard stepped into the path of one vehicle, costing him his life and causing the assassin's van to crash into a car in the motorcade and instantly explode; within a minute, the other vehicle blew up just yards from Musharraf's armored Mercedes...
From the moment U.S. leaders turned to Musharraf after 9/11 as a principal ally in the war on terrorism, they have recognized the fragility of the support he offers as the disputed leader of a coup-prone nation in which Islamic extremism is on the rise. By turning on the Taliban, allowing U.S. forces to launch war on Afghanistan from Pakistan and continuing to help the Americans as they rounded up Taliban and al-Qaeda remnants, Musharraf has earned powerful enemies. But never have the threats to him been more evident than now, three months after al-Jazeera aired...
Pakistani investigators suspect that al-Qaeda was behind the Dec. 14 attack, but any of a number of local extremist groups could have provided the manpower. Musharraf has invited a new wave of antipathy from radicals by banning some of their organizations and by softening his stance toward India, particularly on the question of the disputed territory of Kashmir. He has declared a unilateral cease-fire along the line dividing Pakistani and Indian forces in Kashmir and has suggested that he may be willing to relent on Pakistan's long-held demand that Kashmir's future be determined...
...asked people to find the better way forward. He upped the ante and spoke of open borders, a single currency and an economic union. He challenged the region to think that if Europe and ASEAN could do it, why not South Asia? For a man schooled in war, Musharraf proved to be surprisingly agile in peace. He matched Vajpayee step by step, measure for measure, lending muscle to vision...
...Second, the end of American ambiguity toward terrorism is beginning to work. Its allies in the war against terror, including Musharraf, cannot sustain a policy of equivocation. Pakistan-based organizations such as Jaish-e-Mohammad or Lashkar-e-Toiba, dedicated to keeping the Kashmir fire burning, find their profile has changed: instead of heroes, they have become the hunted. It is not only India that wants them now, but also their own government...