Last Updated: Tuesday, 17 July 2007
Musharraf faces big decision http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6902368.stm
By Ahmed Rashid
Ahmed Rashid, guest journalist and writer on Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia, says Pakistan's leader faces a stark choice.
[The aftermath of the Red Mosque siege]
The storming of the Islamabad's Red Mosque last week, and the deaths of scores of Islamic militants has placed Pakistan and its leadership on the edge of a deadly precipice.
One wrong move and the already deeply polarized country could plunge into a permanent state of anarchic violence, bordering on civil war. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6902368.stm