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According to Time magazine, Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf holds “the world’s most dangerous job.” He has twice come within inches of assassination. His forces have caught more than 670 members of al Qaeda in the mountains and cities, yet many others remain at large and active, including Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri. Long locked in a deadly embrace with its nuclear neighbor India, Pakistan has come close to full-scale war on two occasions since it first exploded a nuclear bomb in 1998. As President Musharraf struggles for the security and political future of his nation, the stakes could not be higher for the world at large.
It is unprecedented for a sitting head of state to write a memoir as revelatory, detailed, and gripping as In the Line of Fire. Here, for the first time, readers can get a firsthand view of the war on terror in its central theater. President Musharraf details the manhunts for Osama and Zawahiri and their top lieutenants, complete with harrowing cat-and-mouse games, informants, interceptions, and bloody firefights. He tells the stories of the near-miss assassination attempts, not only against himself but against Shaukut Aziz (later elected prime minister) and one of his top army officers (later the vice chief of army staff), and of the abduction and beheading of Daniel Pearl – as well as the forensic and shoe-leather investigations that uncovered the perpetrators. He details the army’s mountain operations that have swept several valleys clean, and he talks about the areas of North Waziristan where al Qaeda is still operating.
Yet the war on terror is just one of the many headline-making subjects in In the Line of Fire. The full story of the events that brought President Musharraf to power in 1999 is told for the first time. He reveals new details of the 1999 confrontation with India in Kashmir (the Kargil conflict) and offers a proposal for resolving the Kashmir dispute.
He offers a portrait of Mullah Omar, with stories of Pakistan’s attempts to negotiate with him. Concerning A. Q. Khan and his proliferation network, he explains what the government knew and when it knew it, and he reveals fascinating details of Khan’s operations and the investigations into them.
In addition, President Musharraf takes many stances that will make news. He calls for the Muslim world to recognize Israel once a viable Palestinian state is created. He urges the repeal of Pakistan’s 1979 Hudood law. He calls for the emancipation of women and for their full political equality with men. He tells the sad story of Pakistan’s experience with democracy and what he has done to make it workable.
**Review of the Book ( By C. Belwal)
**ave read lot of reviews about the book. After watching President Musharraf in the Daily Show, I decided to buy a copy. Book starts of well, but as you go along you get a sinking feeling like Duh, What is he talking about? Most of the paragraphs are full of self praise and how he had an exceptional body and was a very brave gang leader ready to pick fights with people. To his credit the President Musharraf is honest and admits that he is not very intelligent. The only facts in the books are that the Pakistani Military is the worlds best, its special operations group is the best in the world and everything else related to Pakistan Army is the best in the world. West Point take note, the Pakistan Army can teach you a lesson. Due to these words which sound more like callous bravado I bothered to check the facts the author makes regarding wars of India. My two hours of research on the Internet showed that the India’s air force was not `wiped off the air’ in their war of 1965, nor that their 1971 war was the mistake of Pakistani politicians. Their most recent war in Kargil which he claims a victory for Pakistan, didn’t seem like one from any angle. I also went through official Indian Government records and it shows that India launched an investigation into their Army’s failures to detect Pakistani attacks. If Indian government launches an investigation into its intelligence failure to detect Pakistani intrusions how can they be intruding into Pakistan like President Musharraf claims?
After this I took everything with a pinch of salt. The President is also peeved that in the movie Black Hawk Down the Pakistani Army wasn’t shown much. He says that the US Army Rangers and Delta Force were saved not because of their training but because the World’s best Pakistani Army. Why can’t the world’s best army focus its energies in finding Osama, rather than getting concerned about Hollywood movies?
It would have helped if the English was good. A Mexican Immigrant can write a book with better grammar. The English makes you cry when the President “sorrowfully” pulls soldiers from a tank, and when some of the sentences don’t make sense. Can’t the publishers or the President who commands the world’s best army find a decent proof reader? I have lost respect for Simon & Schuster.
Overall I will recommend Tom Clancy over this. At least Tom Clancy has some facts right. It’s really scary that we are dependant on a man like this, and his world’s best army in our war on Terror. God save Us.