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Pervez Musharraf: the emerging leader of the Muslim world?

From: Contemporary Review  |  Date: 2/1/2005  |  Author: Shuja, Sharif

PAKISTAN is the most powerful Muslim country in the world, in terms of military strength. With total active armed forces exceeding 600,000 and a reserve of more than half a million, it has one of the ten largest armed forces in the world. And Pakistan's President, Pervez Musharraf, is one of the crucial figures in today's world. He is making a determined bid to lead the Islamic world out of the sense of hopelessness and anti-Western hostility that has characterized it over recent ...

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