General Pervez Musharraf, facing a surge of anti-American sentiment, yesterday warned that covert US air strikes against al-Qaida inside Pakistan were an infringement of national sovereignty.

Admitting that his popularity was waning, the Pakistani president insisted he was “not a poodle” of George Bush and rejected accusations he was running a military dictatorship.
guardian.co.uk

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