A Dictator S Dilemma
Musharraf, 58, stands squarely on the side of secularism. And his tilt toward the United States seemed to pay at least one early dividend: the Bush administration said last week it would waive economic sanctions imposed on Pakistan and India after they tested nuclear weapons three years ago. In Pakistan’s long battle between religious extremism and modern secularism, Musharraf had staked out his ground, and it wasn’t in the middle–he was a modern man....