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...Atal Behari Vajpayee, then, does not seem like the first choice to control a nuclear arsenal. But for four years, the Indian Prime Minister's hands have been the grandfatherly restraint holding back the warmongers in his nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P...
...Atal Behari Vajpayee, then, would be an unusual candidate to control a nuclear arsenal. But for four years the Indian Prime Minister's grandfatherly hands have held the subcontinent back from tumbling into war. Despite the fact that he heads the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a constituency stuffed with extremists, Vajpayee has ambitiously pursued peace with neighbor and rival Pakistan, even traveling to the Pakistani cultural capital of Lahore in 1999, vainly hoping to bury the bloody animus of the past and start an era of good feelings...
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...