Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's charm offensive in Europe at the end of January was in ultimately more on the offensive side than on the charming one.
At a breakfast meeting in Brussels, he certainly won no converts among journalists and non-governmental organisation representatives when he criticised the West's "obsession" with democracy and human rights, saying that in Pakistan's political environment, these things would take time and have to conform to local specifics: "We hav...
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