From the article:

... the commander of this "great force".

Despite his having preached "enlightened moderation", President Musharraf ...

How I understand it is this: in British English you don't place punctuation in situations where the quotes serve to offset and not so much to quote a source. (Do you understand what I mean? When the quote is a letter, number or just a word or two.) To be honest, I always thought that of American English as well, but I guess I'm wrong.