President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a coup eight years ago and has been the repeated target of assassination attempts for allying his Islamic nation with the United States in its war on terror, promised to bring true democracy to Pakistan.
But on Saturday, days before the Supreme Court was to rule on his future as the country's top elected leader, he declared a state of emergency, cut communications, and deployed paramilitary troops and police in the capital, Islamabad.
Musharraf's decision to end Pakistan's support for the hard-line Taliban regime in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States won him new friends in …
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