Word: biharis
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...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...
...prominent Tehelka website, which last year exposed a government bribery scandal; by the Central Bureau of Investigation on charges of assaulting a federal officer; in New Delhi. Released on bail after several hours, Bahal's arrest comes amid allegations of a media crackdown by the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, in which several journalists have been detained or harassed...
...KRISHNA ADVANI, 74, India's Hindu nationalist Home Minister, as Deputy Prime Minister; in New Delhi. Widely perceived as a right-wing hard-liner, Advani remains the main strategist of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (bjp). He has long been the de facto No. 2 to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and his new designation appears to formalize his position as successor...
...Lahore rickshaw drivers, the unseasonably warm weather meant abandoning the bricklaying or cruising for fares and squatting in the shade of wilting bodhi or neem trees to chat and stoke their suspicion and hatred of their neighboring nation. And for the nations' leaders, India's Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in his New Delhi bungalow and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf in his Rawalpindi villa, central air conditioning may have alleviated the high temperatures, but both men were scorched in the searing glare of the showdown, the Pakistani especially. As the world and, more importantly for Musharraf's political future...
...Mass Along a Disputed Border Though they shook hands in nepal at the South Asia summit, the leaders of India and Pakistan showed few signs of reducing the mutual tension that began with a Dec. 13 suicide attack on the New Delhi Parliament. The governments of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and President Pervez Musharraf squared off over the activities of two Kashmir separatist groups, Lashkar-e-Tayyab and Jaish-e-Mohammed. India accused the Islamic rebel groups of responsibility for the attack and demanded that Pakistan shut them down. After both countries began massing troops along the border, Musharraf...