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...Forces in Afghanistan who don't want stability in the region, and forces in Pakistan who are not interested in a progressive, Muslim democracy?all of these are linking together to hit Musharraf." The Dec. 14 attackers used powerful explosives, which, combined with the sophistication of the attempt, led Pakistani officials to suspect al-Qaeda involvement. The driver of the car that got closest to the President on Christmas Day had his face blown off by the blast; from that grisly evidence he was identified as Muhammad Jamil, a 23-year-old from the Pakistani-controlled section of Kashmir...
...cede control of the military in months; under the agreement with legislators legitimizing his presidency, he promised to step down as army Chief of Staff by 2005.) Many in the military are more Islamic-minded than the President; others are angered by his abandonment of the Taliban, which the Pakistani armed forces helped create, and of Kashmiri jihadis, whom they aided. The circumstances of the December attacks suggest inside help. The plotters apparently knew the President's route and schedule and, in the Christmas attack, how to distinguish the real presidential motorcade from a decoy that is routinely dispatched whenever...
...Pakistan, there's a confusing range of opinion about Musharraf. A Taliban-inspired political grouping called Muttahidda Majlis-e-Amals (MMA), which formed in two Pakistani states after America's war in Afghanistan, condemns him for his lack of Islamic fervor. (The MMA-affiliated government of the northern city of Peshawar has prohibited mannequins from being displayed in shop windows and also disapproves of male doctors treating female patients.) But it was the MMA that gave Musharraf support in the parliamentary maneuvers that last week recognized him as an elected President. Middle-class Pakistanis wonder if he's become...
...ground can frequently outwit spies in the sky. The U.S. has apparently been close several times to killing the notorious warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, wanted for sponsoring attacks on foreign troops and their Afghan allies. But last week he sent a gloating videotape to a news station in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar, jauntily recounting the near misses by U.S. troops tracking him. On one occasion, he says, he survived by climbing up a mountain barely 200 yards from where U.S. soldiers were searching a house. "We were in a neighboring house and could hear the voices of the Americans...
...still hear her screams." Musarrat Sahu, Pakistani father who strangled his daughter to death for falling in love with the son of a feuding branch of their family...