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KASHMIR No Progress in the India-Pakistan Standoff Pakistan spurned Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's peace proposal. A Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman described the plan for joint patrols along Kashmir's disputed Line of Control as unlikely to work because of the state of relations between the two countries, which regularly exchange artillery and machine-gun fire. Pakistan said six civilians died in recent attacks. Earlier Vajpayee refused to meet Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf, at a conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan, until cross-border terrorism ceases. Police in Indian-administered Kashmir said that they killed at least...
...people have lost their lives in a separatist rebellion, partly fueled by Pakistan. Lone's death followed a militant attack at an army camp in Jammu the week before that left 31 dead, and India declared it had lost patience with Pakistan's "cross-border terrorism." Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee told some of the 750,000 Indian troops massed with heavy artillery and short-range ballistic missiles all along the western front to prepare for a "decisive battle." He used the same alarming phrase a day later before the civilian press. Vajpayee ordered thousands more jawans, or soldiers...
Person of the Week THE SUM OF ALL FEARSIt's springtime and there's trouble in Kashmir, which means eternal rivals India and Pakistan are at it again. Indian PM Atal Behari Vajpayee talked tough, claiming the time had come for "a decisive battle," but later backed off. How far will...
...mounting domestic pressure to retaliate forcefully for two grisly attacks in as many weeks in Kashmir, has said it will give Musharraf time to act on that promise. But if he fails to, it will go to war. And as if to drive home the Arafat comparison, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee this week wrote to President Bush to warn that India has last all faith in Musharraf and is unable do business with him. Avoiding a war now will depend, Vajpayee warned, either on a complete and unlikely turnabout by Musharraf, or else on his ouster - a position familiar...
...vote for Kabbah. INDIA Jammu's "Massacre of Innocents" Tension between India and Pakistan over the disputed territory of Kashmir rose when three gunmen killed 34 people in a raid on the Kaluchak army base in Jammu. The dead were mainly women and included 11 children. Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee told Parliament last Friday that the "massacre of innocents" meant that India would "have to retaliate." A day later, New Delhi expelled the Pakistani High Commissioner. Since December, the two countries have mobilized some 1 million troops along the border. THE NETHERLANDS Wheel of Fortuyn After an election...