President Musharraf has survived a couple of assassination attempts (the first in December of 2003, when Musharraf's convoy was attacked twice within two weeks. The second one, on Christmas Day, left 14 people dead and dozens injured). Does this constitute a failed state? Maybe not. But it does bespeak a nation whose integrity and unity are-challenged on a daily basis (p. 54)."
Musharraf's rule over the military and over the country are in trouble today. Even in the face of Musharraf's dictatorship, the people of Pakistan have been able to voice their ideas and to make their support or lack thereof of Musharraf known (Alagappa, Muthiah, 2004, p. 364).
Many of these groups were able to forge links, however tenuous, with other social and political actors to resist the government's antidemocratic actions (p. 364)."
Musharraf has been cooperative with the United States in its efforts to eradicate Afghanistan and the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan of
