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...Skeptics note that Pakistan has a habit of announcing dramatic antiterrorism moves to coincide with high-level meetings with U.S. officials. At the time of the raid, President Pervez Musharraf had recently returned from U.N. headquarters in New York City, Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali was meeting with President Bush in Washington, and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who had earlier questioned whether Musharraf had the support of the entire Pakistani military, was preparing a trip to Islamabad...
Sultan insisted that the raid was "not at all to please the Americans or anyone else." Nor, he said, was it a response to last week's release of a tape in which Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called for the overthrow of Musharraf's government. A Western diplomat in Islamabad also viewed the raid--which involved hundreds of Pakistani soldiers, two of whom were killed--as an indication that Pakistan is getting more serious in the fight against terrorism: "It was quite a bold move, because this is an area where the government has rarely operated...
...implicated in the deaths of scores of Shi'as, including more than 50 killed in a July attack on a mosque in the southern city of Quetta, and six shot dead in Karachi on Oct. 6. Tariq had survived numerous assassination attempts. Critics say the administration of President Pervez Musharraf has no strategy to deal with the violence. It better find one soon. Tariq's party, the MIP, has demanded the government arrest his killers. If it doesn't, warned the MIP's Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem at a Karachi rally: "We know how to take revenge." Building a Case SWEDEN...
...ASIA Japan: Is recovery for real? Nepal: Return of the Serpent China: Police under fire Interview: Pervez Musharraf...
...ASIA Japan: Is recovery for real? Nepal: Return of the Serpent China: Police under fire Interview: Pervez Musharraf...