Pakistan March 6 2001 Eighteen months after seizing power from an unpopular and corrupt elected government, General Pervez Musharraf, the army chief of staff, is confident he has stopped Pakistan's slide into chaos. He has another 18 months to demonstrate he can restore the country to solvency and honest governance, following a supreme court ruling that he must make way for civilian rule by October 2002, three years after the bloodless coup that toppled Nawaz Sharif, the now exiled prime minister. Overview - Slide stops but tasks remain Politics - Reforms under pressure from weak economy - General Pervez Musharraf: Interview extracts - Foreign policy - Privatisation Economy - Living in the shadow of debt mountain - Stock market - Tax reform Industry sectors - IT - Textiles - Banking - Telecommunications Profiles - Peshawar: Frontier town torn by two cultures - Dubai: trading port for business and pleasure Related Surveys - India 2000 - Indian Infrastructure 1999 - South Asian Software & Services 1999