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A Close Run Thing.

By Shafi, Kamran
Publication: Economic Review
Date: Friday, October 1 1999

Look at the role the United States has played in this drama. It is obvious, is it not that Washington had a big part to play (foolishly, and shamefully, yet again) in the attempted destabilisation of the army? There are reports in the press of the Americans being aware of plans to sack General Musharraf which were discussed during Ziauddin's pilgrimage. Instead of cautioning reason and trying to instil some little good sense into their satraps, the Sharif Brothers Inc., the Americans seem to have sanctioned their every move. How obscene. Was President Clinton to Nawaz Sharif what

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