Pakistan arrests 90 more suspects (bet many in the WH wish they

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had this authority-- Preventive roundups.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,16014795%255E1702,00.html

Pakistan arrests 90 more suspects
From correspondents in Islamibad
22jul05

PAKISTANI security forces have arrested 90 more suspected Islamic militants overnight, raising the number of detainees from raids since the London bombings to more than 300, officials said.

"During raids overnight in all the four provinces around 90 more suspected militants have been rounded up, and the number of people in preventive detention is more than 300 now," said an interior ministry official monitoring the operation.
President Pervez Musharraf, a key Western ally under international pressure to act against extremists, announced new steps yesterday against militants inciting the kind of hatred that inspired the London attacks.

The nationwide crackdown on Islamic seminaries and schools, or madrassas, mosques and other sites started last night and has led to calls for protests from fundamentalist Islamic groups today, the Muslim day of prayer.......

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1. this will not play well in pakistan.

musharaff is in an extremely delicate position since the last elections.

i don't think that the future of pakistan looks stable -- musharaff can't live that long.