Washington's No. 2 diplomat was due for an all-important sitdown with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Saturday after talking by phone overnight with one of the his chief rivals, hoping that face-to-face diplomacy would convince the general to move back on the path to democracy.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte's trip was seen as a last best chance to avoid political turmoil in Pakistan, which has seen its Supreme Court purged and thousands of protesters detained since Musharraf declared emergency rule on Nov. 3.
Negroponte phoned opposition leader Benazir Bhutto overnight, the U.S. State Department said, in the highest-level U.S. contact …
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