TIME Person of the Year: People Who Mattered in 2002, Pervez Musharraf






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How's this for a balancing act? In 2002 Pakistan's President cooperated with America's war on terrorism while mollifying his fundamentalist Muslim subjects. He reasserted Pakistan's claims to Kashmir while avoiding an all-out war with India. Washington can only hope the act lasts a long time; if Musharraf were to go, there would always be the chance a hard-line Islamic radical could rule a nuclear-tipped Pakistan.

— By Lev Grossman





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