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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ForYourEyesOnly who wrote (18963)	3/12/2003 5:04:30 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Islamabad shows little appetite for U.S.-led war Erik Eckholm The New York Times Wednesday, March 12, 2003 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan The prime minister of Pakistan called Tuesday for more time to search for a peaceful solution in Iraq, strongly suggesting that Pakistan this week would not support a U.S.-backed resolution in the United Nations that could be used to justify an attack. "We will request that more time be given to peace in Iraq," Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said in a televised address that was closely watched by diplomats around the world. Jamali did not say outright that Pakistan, one of the uncommitted members of the Security Council on the Iraq issue, would abstain or oppose the resolution put forth by Britain, Spain and the United States. But he repeated the cryptic remark he made to Parliament and the press Tuesday, saying, "It will be very difficult for Pakistan to support a war in Iraq." The decision on Iraq has been an agonizing one for President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, who has said that he wishes Pakistan had not received the honor of a spot on the United Nations Security Council this year. He has been forced to balance the costs of disappointing his American allies against the serious domestic divisions that could follow a pro-U.S. vote. He must make the high-pressure decision just as the elected government he ushered into office last autumn, three years after he seized power in a coup, faces a constitutional stalemate and as Islamic parties have drawn hundreds of thousands of people into the streets for anti-American, anti-war protests. [...] iht.com