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 over 670 members of Al Qaeda, 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 neighbour India, Pakistan has twice
come close to full-scale war 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 first-hand view of the war on terror in its central theatre.
President Musharraf details the manhunts for Bin Laden 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, and the fatal abduction and beheading of the US
journalist Daniel Pearl – as well as the 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.
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