The Siege of Lal Masjid was a confrontation in July 2007 between Islamic fundamentalist militants and the Government of Pakistan, led by President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. The focal points of the operation were the Lal Masjid ("Red Mosque") and the Jamia Hafsa madrasah complex in ...
Over the past several years, as Pakistan has suffered an eruption of jihadist terrorism, its officials have spent a great deal of time defending the safety of their nuclear program. Some have implied that questions about the safety of the Pakistani nuclear arsenal are motivated by anti-Muslim prejudice. Pervez Musharraf ...
Pervez Musharraf is a Pakistani politician and a retired four-star army general who was the tenth President of Pakistan from 2001 until tendering resignation, to avoid impeachment, in 2008. Born in Delhi during British Raj, Musharraf was raised in Karachi and Istanbul. He went on to study math at the Forman Christian ...
Mar 2, 2009 ... India and Pakistan's secret Kashmir talks. ... (India first tested a nuclear weapon in 1974, and Pakistan did so in 1998.) ... The two principal envoys—for Pakistan, a college classmate of Musharraf's named Tariq Aziz, and, for India, a Russia specialist named Satinder Lambah—were developing what ...
India-Pakistan confrontation all about? What does it tell us about the phenomenon of religious radicalism and violence in that part of the world? How close did India and Pakistan get to the beginning of a hot war before July 2002? What were the odds that the outbreak of a hot war could have degenerated into a spiral toward ...
When Pakistan erupted in crisis, I spoke to Musharraf before Bush did.