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...played a key role in keeping the two nations at bay. On at least one occasion, the Pentagon's spy satellites picked up a sudden, secret build-up of Indian forces along the frontier. Washington made a 3 a.m. phone call to New Delhi warning Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government to step back from the brink. Faced with U.S. pressure, the Indians complied...
...Omar Abdullah paid for the sins of his father and grandfather and the corruption in their governments. A surprise beneficiary from the elections is Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who insisted on a fair election no matter what the outcome. That put him at odds with his own Bharatiya Janata Party and Omar's National Conference, which is a partner in Vajpayee's ruling coalition. Vajpayee even declined to campaign in the state?which Kashmiris took not as a slight but as a signal that the Prime Minister saw the elections as part of a healing process...
When Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf labeled the Kashmir election a "farce," he was a victim of either false reporting or false hopes. When India's Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee admitted that New Delhi had made mistakes in Kashmir, he was stating the obvious. What made this remarkable was that the obvious had never been stated before...
...warped societies and partitioned nations, the greatest irony of the moment may be that the two men on the subcontinent who can best understand each other's predicaments are not on speaking terms. Antagonists in the world's longest-running dress rehearsal for Armageddon, India's Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, now, surprisingly, face similar foes. India's hawkish Hindu fundamentalists pose problems for Vajpayee's coalition at home and call for war against Musharraf's Pakistan abroad. Pakistan's Islamic extremists now despise Musharraf as much as they hate traditional enemy India...
...India uses elections in Kashmir as proof that the people there accept rule from New Delhi?even when the elections prove nothing of the sort. This round might be different. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has promised "free and fair" elections for months?and even apologized for past mistakes in Kashmir, an unprecedented gesture. Rigging will be harder than usual with the world watching. Moreover, the election promises to deliver Kashmir a new generation of leaders that may finally free it from the prejudice and intransigence of the past. Backed by India, the National Conference is led by Omar Abdullah...