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...Sharif had excellent ties with the Clinton White House, allowing the U.S. to use Pakistani airspace for missile attacks against al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan in 1998. He cracked down on sectarian extremism, and used his influence with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to curb opium production and extradite known terrorists. As a center-right politician, he is much closer to the conservative parties that hold sway over Pakistan's religious leaders. Bhutto, says Zahid Hussain, author of the seminal Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle With Militant Islam, risks alienating the conservative groups by driving them into the embrace of extremists...
...Because Pakistan is a frontline state in the war on terror, what happens there is closely followed by Washington. The State Department has studiously stayed away from condemning Sharif's deportation. "It's a matter for the Pakistanis to resolve," said spokesman Sean McCormack. "The Pakistani Supreme Court has made a judgment about this issue and the decision to deport Mr. Sharif runs contrary to that, but it is still a pending legal matter in Pakistan, so we're not going to have anything to say about...
...terror as President." Retired Lieut. General Hamid Gul, former director of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, calls the Americans "naive" for thinking that Musharraf will have any power if he steps down as military chief, or that Bhutto as Prime Minister will be able to control the army. "The Pakistani army is a one-man show. Whoever is chief gets to call the shots. And if you send the army back to the barracks, no civilian leader can tell them what to do." Gul says that in trying to influence the political process in Pakistan, the U.S. is playing with...
...part, has not been all bad for Pakistan. The economy is growing at a rapid clip, new infrastructure projects have brought roads, water and electricity to remote areas, and the arts and media are freer than they have been in a long while. But it's a quirk of Pakistani politics that leaders are easily built up, torn down, cannibalized and regurgitated. Like Musharraf, Sharif has a new persona. Once deemed an industrialist out of touch with the masses, he is now seen as an economic savior who will curb the crippling inflation that plagues Pakistan today. Corruption charges against...
Even a year ago a Supreme Court injunction would have caused barely a pause in Pakistani politics, but everything changed on March 9, when Musharraf attempted to dismiss an increasingly independent Supreme Court chief justice who threatened to derail the general's bid for another term as President. After an enormous show of support from the Pakistani people, and massive rallies by the country's black-suited lawyers, Chief Justice Iftikhan Chaudhry was reinstated on July 20. Since then the feisty Supreme Court has ruled against the current government on several issues, including Sharif's right to return...