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Amid Protests, U.S. to Review Aid to Pakistan

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that the U.S. will review its aid to Pakistan after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency and suspended the nation's constitution on Saturday.

Guests discuss the crisis in Pakistan, and what is at stake if U.S. aid is cut off.

Guests:

Peter Bergen, author of Holy War, Inc. and The Osama bin Laden I Know; senior fellow at the New America Foundation

Daniel Markey, senior fellow on India, Pakistan and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations; former State Department official

Hassan Abbas, research fellow at the Belfer Center's Project on Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; former Pakistani government official; author of Pakistan's Drift into Extremism

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