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...Faisal Saleh Hayat, Pakistan's Interior Minister, insists that "our focus is equally on al-Qaeda and on the Taliban." President Pervez Musharraf has praised his security forces for capturing 10 Taliban leaders. He also sent Pakistani soldiers into parts of N.W.F.P. where they hadn't been "for over a century." But that late-June campaign stemmed from reports that bin Laden was in the area. A Pakistani intelligence source near Chaman says his orders are "not to harass nor appease" the Taliban but to let them...
...Sectarianism leaves ugly psychological scars, promulgating waves of violence. After the Quetta attack, enraged Shi'ites set fire to vehicles, banks and hospitals. City officials said Shi'ites also beat a Sunni student to death. President Pervez Musharraf was in Paris when he heard the news, winding up a trip to America and Europe during which he'd been showered with praise for his role in the war against terror. Constituents at home, especially in the restive provinces bordering Afghanistan, are less likely to give him such a warm welcome. Each terror attack on home soil can also be interpreted...
...While India was cozying up to China, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf spent the week in the opposite hemisphere cementing ties with the U.S. During a trip to Camp David, Musharraf was rewarded by President George W. Bush for his support in the war on terror with a five-year, $3 billion aid package...
...retaliation, Musharraf could dissolve the provincial assembly. But the MMA is making threats of its own, warning that 68 of its members serving in parliament may resign if Islamabad tries to overturn the local law. That poses no direct peril to Musharraf, who took power in a bloodless coup in 1999. But the flimsy coalition Musharraf stitched together after last October's elections could come unraveled if there are mass resignations. And if the elected government falls, Musharraf's popularity could plummet, as could his standing with his main international ally...
...Meanwhile, a nationwide alliance of mullahs has launched a direct attack on Musharraf, demanding that he no longer serve as both the country's President and army chief. They say they are willing to drop that demand?if Musharraf agrees to apply Shari'a law throughout the country, a step the President, a religious moderate, is loathe to make. If he wants to save his fa?ade of civilian government and retain international support, he may have to swallow hard and make peace with two exiled former Prime Ministers, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, whose parties together are strong enough...