STEVE INSKEEP, Host:
Welcome to the program, sir.
HUSSEIN HAQQANI: It's a pleasure being here.
INSKEEP: How dramatically does this change the situation regarding Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and the opposition to him?
HAQQANI: There are people in Pakistan who support dictatorship and who did not like her. The fact of the matter is that General Musharraf will not be able to escape allegations of complicity in this particular incident, either by neglect or by design. And I think that it will be difficult for the international community to give him a free pass this time.
INSKEEP: I want to follow-up on a couple of things that were said by Fasi Zaka, a journalist - a Pakistani journalist in Islamabad. He says, in the end, even though there'd been a previous attempt on Bhutto that he was surprised to see that in the end, she was assassinated. There was a feeling there that she might be above all that, above true risk to her life. Are you at all surprised that this has happened today?
HAQQANI: So Pakistan has been in an unfortunate position off extremist, jihadists being active, but at the same time, Pakistan's own security forces have not cleaned house for a long, long time.
INSKEEP: Hussein Haqqani at Boston University Center for International Relations. Thank you very much for talking with us this morning. I appreciate it.
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