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President Pervez Musharraf's vision for Pakistan
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf shared his vision for the future of his country at Washington, DC's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on Feb. 12.
Musharraf began by contemplating Pakistan's past. During the Cold War, he said, the U.S.-Pakistani alliance was key to containing communism. "Together we expelled the Russians from Afghanistan and contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union," he said.
Thereafter, however, he continued, tensions over nuclear weap...
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The Christian Science Monitor
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; ... ought to have elections soon, and you need to take off your uniform," Bush said, describing his call with Musharraf at a joint news conference yesterday with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "You can't be the president and the head of the military at the same ...
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; ... fields of military activity, said Musharraf, who met with Bush for about 45 minutes in the Oval Office and then joined him for a news conference. Musharraf told Bush he believes that Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped Jan. 23 in ...
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The Economist (US)
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The Washington Post
; ... national power administration, Tariq Hamid, said at a 10 p.m. news conference in Lahore that the outage was caused by technical ... On Sunday night, after power had been restored in most areas, news stations broadcast footage of cities and towns lighted by candles ...
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The Economist (US)
; ... martial law. Hundreds of secular and Islamist politicians, lawyers and human-rights activists were locked up. Private television-news channels were taken off the air. For a decent seeming man, it was an act of political indecency. He may have been surprised by ...
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Pakistan leader blames India In Chicago speech Musharraf says rival is stockpiling arms
Chicago Sun-Times
; The president of Pakistan warned Tuesday in Chicago that neighboring India is aggressively arming itself at a time when the two bitter enemies are "in eyeball-to-eyeball mode" because of tensions in the Kashmir region. "The visible tilt in conventional arms balance between India and Pakistan has
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Musharraf's unhappy new year; Pakistan.(Pervez Musharraf)
The Economist (US)
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