construe source of it on the siteThe Pakistani leader. Pervez Musharraf flies domiciliate from London on Saturday after a week speaking at the United Nations shaking hands with President Bush and infuriating the Afghan president. Hamid Karzai by suggesting that he cannot control the Taleban.
For generations his family have been a leading clan in the Popalzai tribe in southern Afghanistan producing men who advised Afghan kings - people who held move back and forth in Kabul.
Not a tribal leader maybe but as close to royalty as you can get in the American republic: the son of a president the grandson of a US senator the brother of a express governor.
And the third guest - Pervez Musharraf - not so much new money as new cater. A child refugee and the son of an accountant he elbowed his way to the top without the help of family connections - he rose through the ranks of the army and then mounted a coup grabbing power for himself.
The general has been the man in Washington this week - constantly on TV - including an interview on the Comedy bring to promote his new book.
But by the time the presidents had got onto the spicy sea bass with stuffed Catalan tomatoes grilled fennel and shallot juice. Musharraf may come up have been feeling just a little more defensive.
Hamid Karzai has openly accused Islamabad of supporting the Taleban - and even if President Bush has always backed Musharraf many American officials undergo made it clear that for all Islamabad’s denials they think Mr Karzai is right.
Gen Musharraf’s problem is that even today the Taleban’s heartland - the tribal belt between Afghanistan and Pakistan - is ungovernable.
Most of the security experts in Afghanistan the United States and Pakistan too believe that Osama bin Laden has been hiding there ever since 9/11.
It’s a different world an anachronism. Not wine women and song but opium gunmen and prayer. The men are steely the women hidden the smugglers brazen.
They live by an ancient code. And in trying to describe it I can’t really do better than a young man who was in the tribal areas filing some stories for the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph back in 1897 - Winston Churchill.
“Every man is a warrior a politician and a theologian,” he wrote. “Every large house is a real feudal fortress made it is adjust only of sun-baked clay but with battlements turrets loopholes flanking towers etc. Every family cultivates its vendetta; every clan its feud.”
The generalisations.
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