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Geopolitics

Musharraf Rushes Out Of Court After His Arrest Ordered

AFP (France), BBC (UK), DAWN (Pakistan)

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ISLAMABAD – A Pakistani court has ordered the arrest of ex-military leader Pervez Musharraf on Thursday, in connection with his March 2007 attempt to put judges under house arrest.

After the Islamabad High Court rejected his bail application, Musharraf immediately left the premises, escorted by his bodyguards. It is unclear why police officers present did not arrest him on the spot, according to the AFP.

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Musharraf in 2005. Photo by U.S. Navy

According to police, the former president is currently at his residence in Chak Shahzad, in the outskirts of Islamabad. Police are expected to carry out his arrest, says Pakistan daily Dawn.

Sixty judges were detained after then-President Musharraf declared a state of emergency. He is also accused in two other cases: his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to murder the late politician Benazir Bhutto in 2007, as well as treason, writes theBBC.

According to a spokesperson, the 69-year-old retired general will file an appeal against the court order. This decision came as a surprise, as the same court had recently granted him a six day-interim bail after he'd appeared before the court.

The politician had returned from four years of self-imposed exile last month hoping to reboot his political career and lead his All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) party into the general election next month. Earlier this week, his candidacy for the National Assembly had been officially rejected, reports the BBC.

Musharraf had seized power in a 1999 coup and resigned in 2008 under political pressure.

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Kissinger, The European Roots Of Pure American Cynicism

A diplomatic genius for some, a war criminal for others, Henry Kissinger has just turned 100. An opportunity for Dominique Moïsi, who has known him well, to reflect on the German-born U.S. diplomat's roots and driving raison d'être.

A portrait of Doctor Henry A. Kissinger behind a desk in Washington, D.C

Photo of Kissinger as National Security Advisor the day before being sworn-in as United States Secretary of State.

Dominique Moïsi

-Analysis-

PARIS — My first contacts — by letter — with the "diplomat of the century" date back to the autumn of 1971. As a Sachs scholar at Harvard University, my teacher, renowned French philosopher Raymond Aron, had written me a letter of introduction to the man who was then President Richard Nixon's National Security Advisor.

Aron's letter opened all the doors. Kissinger invited me to meet him in Washington, before canceling our appointment due to "last-minute constraints." I later learned that these constraints were nothing less than his travels in preparation for Washington's historic opening to China.

In the five decades since that first contact, I've met Kissinger regularly, at the Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg conference, Davos Forum or, more intimately, at his home in New York. As a young student of international relations, I was fascinated to read his doctoral thesis on the Congress of Vienna: "A World Restored."

Kissinger's fascination with the great diplomats who shaped European history — from Austria's Klemens von Metternich to Britain's Castlereagh — was already present in this book. He clearly dreamed of joining their club in the pantheon of world diplomacy. Was his ambition to "civilize" his adopted country, by introducing the subtleties of Ancien Régime diplomacy?

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