Pervez Mushar­raf cashes the check that Pres­i­dent Bush wrote him on Sep­tem­ber 24, 2001:

Secu­rity forces were reported to have detained about 500 oppo­si­tion party fig­ures, lawyers and human rights advo­cates on Sunday, and about a dozen pri­vately owned tele­vi­sion news sta­tions remained off the air. Inter­na­tional broad­cast­ers, includ­ing the BBC and CNN, were also cut off.

The biggest sur­prise? It’s the lawyers who are fight­ing back.

(Quote by Jane Perlez and David Rohde. Photo by Khalid Tanveer.)