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US Offers a Tentative Hand to Nawaz Sharif

After Bhutto's death, Washington surveys a new political scene

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 3, 2008 7:43 AM CST

(Newser) – With Benazir Bhutto gone and elections postponed, the White House is taking stock of its options in Pakistan and cautiously reaching out to a man they had once cold-shouldered: Nawaz Sharif. The prime minister whom Pervez Musharraf deposed in his 1999 bloodless coup is looking... Read full story »

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