A succession of startling developments in Pakistan has left analysts from Islamabad to Washington guessing. Even at its most transparent, Pakistani politics are difficult to decode. Right now, things are even murkier than usual. Washington's immediate challenge is to discover what is really going on there. The New York Times is just plain confused, and isn't afraid to say so. I imagine the editors spent time yesterday going through the press book, calling the usual suspects and asking, "can you explain this?" Finding no easy answers, this editorial is the result. The Musharraf Mysteries | 
