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...catapulted into the international limelight as the white-haired, bespectacled figurehead of Indian intolerance, a national Hindu hero. In headlines and debate, he instantly eclipsed all other leaders, even the Prime Minister from his own Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party, or BJP), the moderate but aging Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Faltering from a lackluster record as head of the national coalition government in New Delhi, and from a series of local poll defeats that has left it ruling just three of India's 28 states, the BJP rejected calls for the Chief Minister's dismissal and instead announced snap...
...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...