Earlier this week, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced, to the great embarrassment of the U.S., that he wouldn’t be attending a joint Afghan-Pakistan tribal conference aimed at cracking down on jihadists.
Now, after phone calls from Condoleezza Rice and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, he takes it back:
Bowing to international pressure, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Friday agreed “in principle” to address a key joint Afghan-Pakistani tribal council in Kabul, the foreign ministry said.
