Trudy Rubin: Only Elected Leaders Can Refocus Pakistan On Radicals

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PAKISTANI President Pervez Musharraf says he imposed military rule to help fight terrorism.

The tragedy for Pakistan - and the danger to us - is that his police and intelligence agents are now beating and jailing judges and lawyers, rather than arresting Islamic radicals. When diplomats asked Musharraf at a meeting in Islamabad on Monday how he planned to crack down on extremists, he railed instead about the sins of Pakistan's judiciary.

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Trudy Rubin: Only Elected Leaders Can Refocus Pakistan On Radicals

So, when trying to figure out how the United States should now treat Musharraf, start from the premise that his imposition of "emergency rule" had little to do with terrorism. Rather, it was aimed at preventing the Supreme Court from ...

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