Pakistan

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Pervez Musharraf is considering stepping down as president of Pakistan rather than waiting to be forced out by his victorious opponents, aides have told The Sunday Telegraph.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, speaking after meeting top military officials here on Saturday, said Pakistan faced an escalating terrorist threat that could affect the United States, but he also underscored the limitations of what Washington could do about it.

Several hundred retired generals, admirals and servicemen gathered Tuesday for the third time in two weeks in this military town and demanded the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf

Defense Minister Ehud Barak secretly met last week with Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, Israel's Channel 2 reported Sunday. The meeting lasted about an hour, during which Barak expressed his concern over the growth of radical Islam in Pakistan, The channel reports.

A 15-year-old boy arrested by Pakistani puppet authorities has reportedly confessed to joining a team of assassins sent to kill Benazir Bhutto. The teenager was reportedly arrested in the town of Dera Ismail Khan in North West Frontier province. In addition to the Bhutto assassination, the boy also "confessed" of plotting to attack Shiites during their ‘Ashura festival on Sunday.

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto has created conditions which contribute to the ongoing destabilization and fragmentation of Pakistan as a Nation. The process of US sponsored "regime change", which normally consists in the re-formation of a fresh proxy government under new leaders has been broken. Discredited in the eyes of Pakistani public opinion, General Pervez Musharaf cannot remain in the seat of political power. But at the same time, the fake elections supported by the "international community" scheduled for January 2008, even if they were to be carried out, would not be accepted as legitimate, thereby creating a political impasse.

BEGINNING early next year, U.S. Special Forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in Pakistan, as part of an effort to train and support indigenous counter-insurgency forces and clandestine counterterrorism units, according to defense officials involved with the planning.

"Pakistan's Armed Forces Should Join Hands with the Pakistani People and Stop U.S.-Zionist Intervention." Jamaat al-Muslimeen leader Imam Badi Ali (Greensboro, North Carolina) issued an Islamic ruling (Fatwa) on the latest situation in Pakistan (November 16).

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto warned Sunday that "foreign forces" could enter Pakistan unless the government re-establishes control in tribal border areas that have become militant hotbeds since the U.S.-led invasion of neighboring Afghanistan.