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Byline: Zahid Hussain, Michael Hirsh and Mark Hosenball
In the latest sign of internal turmoil in Pakistan, tensions are rising between the ruling party of slain leader Benazir Bhutto and the country's powerful military. In a move widely attributed to Pakistan People's Party leader Asif Ali Zardari, the civilian government recently tried to wrest control of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) from the Army and transfer it to a Zardari associate in the Interior Ministry. They fumbled it--and in doing so, Islamabad may have lost the faith of both normal citizens and of Washington.
Before that attempted power grab, U.S. officials accused the ISI of being riddled with Islamist sympathizers who support terrorists in Pakistan's frontier tribal regions. The problem has grown so ...