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Ibid. p. 123.<br />

Ibid. p. 207.<br />

Ibid.<br />

Interview with a minister in Musharraf’s government in June 2005.<br />

<strong>The</strong> text of President Musharraf’s speech, <strong>The</strong> News, 20 September 2001.<br />

Interview with Musharraf.<br />

Interview with a senior <strong><strong>Pak</strong>istan</strong>i foreign ministry official in 2005.<br />

Former interior minister Moinuddin Haider narrated the incident to me.<br />

‘Rubble without a cause: Despite international outrage and dissent<br />

within their own ranks, hard line Taliban extremists have systematically<br />

destroyed Afghanistan’s pre <strong>Islam</strong>ic heritage’, Newsline, April 2001.<br />

‘A general turn around’, Newsline, February 2003.<br />

Ibid.<br />

<strong>The</strong> 9/11 Commission Report, p. 117.<br />

See Chapter Ten.<br />

Interview with a senior retired <strong><strong>Pak</strong>istan</strong>i army officer.<br />

Interview with Musharraf, January 2002.<br />

In his remarks at a joint press conference with Colin Powell in <strong>Islam</strong>abad<br />

on October 2001, President Musharraf said: ‘We agreed that a durable<br />

peace in Afghanistan would only be possible through the establishment<br />

of a broad based, multi-ethnic government representing the demographic<br />

contours of Afghanistan freely choosen by the Afghans without outside<br />

interference. Former King Zahir Shah, political leaders, moderate Taliban.’<br />

Press release US State Department.<br />

‘After arm twisting, Afghan factions pick interim government and leader’,<br />

New York Times, 6 December 2001.<br />

Interview with Musharraf, January 2002.<br />

Akbar Zaidi, <strong><strong>Pak</strong>istan</strong>’s Economic and Social Development (Delhi: Rupa<br />

& co), p. 81.<br />

Ibid.<br />

Interview with a senior ISI officer.<br />

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In <strong>The</strong> News, 13 January 2002.<br />

Interview with Musharraf in January 2002.<br />

Hassan Abbas, <strong><strong>Pak</strong>istan</strong>’s Drift into Extremism, p. 201.<br />

International Crisis Group (ICG) report, <strong><strong>Pak</strong>istan</strong>: Madrasas, Extremism<br />

and the Military, July 2002.<br />

Ibid.<br />

Interview with Hafiz Saeed in January 2001.<br />

Amir Mir, <strong>The</strong> True Face of Jehadists (Lahore: Mashal Press), pp. 107–8.<br />

Ibid.

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