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dc_1 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Pakistan's Musharraf Eyes U.S. Military Sales Fri Feb 8, 9:21 AM ET ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf, a key ally of the United States in its war on terror, leaves for an official visit to Washington Friday during which he hopes to discuss military purchases. Photos Reuters Photo "Pakistan looks forward toward normalization of all relations especially also the military relations, in the field of training and in the field of military sales," Musharraf told a news conference in Islamabad. "One would like to address these issues in their entirety," he said when asked about his U.S. trip. Defense cooperation between the Cold War allies was suspended in 1990 after Washington imposed economic and military sanctions against Islamabad because of its nuclear program. Information Secretary Sayed Anwar Mehmood told Reuters Musharraf would leave Pakistan for the United States late on Friday. He will spend two days with his son in Boston before beginning his official visit to Washington Tuesday. Long shunned by the international community for seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1999, Musharraf moved from near-pariah status to being courted by major world figures after he signed up to the U.S.-led war on terrorism in neighboring Afghanistan (news - web sites). President Bush (news - web sites) is due to meet Musharraf on Wednesday for talks likely to focus on the war on terrorism and tension between India and Pakistan, the White House has said. Washington welcomed Musharraf as a new ally after he gambled his political future by turning his back on Afghanistan's hard-line Taliban rulers and let the United States use several Pakistani air bases to support the war in Afghanistan. The two leaders last met in New York in November on the sidelines of the United Nations (news - web sites) General Assembly, and Bush gave Musharraf special mention in his State of the Union address last week, saying, "Pakistan is now cracking down on terror, and I admire the strong leadership of President Musharraf." Tension has run high in South Asia since a bloody December attack on the Indian parliament, which New Delhi blamed on two Pakistan-based guerrilla groups. In the wake of that attack, close to one million troops backed by missiles, fighters and tanks were positioned along the heavily fortified border between India and Pakistan. Washington has worked hard to defuse the standoff between the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbors, which have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947. The United States has released $600 million in aid to Pakistan and helped it secure a long-term $1.31 billion loan facility from the International Monetary Fund (news - web sites). The United States and Pakistan were particularly close allies in the 1980s when the two countries helped Afghan guerrillas battling Soviet forces occupying Pakistan's western neighbor. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
