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...elected. Vajpayee takes a bus to Lahore for peace talks with Pakistan's then Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif. They pledge to ease tension, but a few months later Pakistani soldiers and Islamic militants clash with Indian troops in Kashmir. The Pakistanis are under the command of army chief?and future President?Pervez Musharraf...
...peace summit at Agra between Vajpayee and President Musharraf collapses. In December, Pakistani militants attack the Indian Parliament complex in New Delhi, ratcheting up tensions...
...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 an audiotape in which Ayman Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, exhorted followers to overthrow the Pakistani leader. The two attempts on Musharraf's life, plus another assassination plot uncovered by Pakistani authorities in April 2002, have left U.S. officials deeply troubled. So invested is the U.S. in Musharraf, American officials are providing technical assistance and intelligence to help protect him. In Pakistan, says Senator Chuck Hagel...
...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...
...count on Musharraf escaping future attacks. In the event of his death, the law prescribes that he be replaced by Senate chairman Mohammad Mian Soomro, an influential member of Musharraf's party, until an election is held. But given its dominant role in Pakistani politics, the military could well seize power. That might keep Pakistan's nuclear weapons safe. The program has always been controlled by the generals, even during civilian governments. A bigger worry for the U.S. war on terrorism is that a successor to Musharraf might logically conclude that taking on Islamic radicals is too hazardous...