White House Decides Aid to Pakistan Should Continue

Matthew Lee, reporting for The Associated Press, says "The Bush administration has concluded it is not legally required to cut or suspend hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Pakistan despite President Pervez Musharraf's imposition of a state of emergency and a crackdown on the opposition and independent media."
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Pakistani Leader Blocks Protests, Creating Impasse

David Rohde and Jane Perlez report in Saturday's New York Times that Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf, "thwarted a protest rally against his emergency decree by the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto," and deployed "thousands of police officers and other security personnel" who "threatened to beat groups of pedestrians who failed to disperse on command."

Pakistan's Plan B deficiency

Like its alliance with the shah, the U.S. is relying too heavily on Musharraf -- and it isn't working.