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What the Crisis in Pakistan Means for the U.S.

Pakistan's president and military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf is in crisis as angry demonstrators demand that he step down. Guests talk about why Pakistan's political crisis poses a dilemma for the United States and why Americans should care about the country's future.

Mary Louise Kelly, NPR intelligence correspondent

Philip Reeves, NPR foreign correspondent

Ahmed Rashid, journalist based in Lahore, Pakistan; author, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

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