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...There were few signs Monday of popular discontent over the crackdown - not least, perhaps, because the organizational leadership of the radical groups was either under arrest or on the run. But the enthusiastic support for the general who named himself president after seizing power two years ago among newspapers traditionally critical of military rule suggests that Musharraf has solid support among middle class Pakistanis for stopping the "Talibanization" of Pakistan. Although the General's actions have been prompted in large part by the Indian military buildup on his borders and threats of war unless Islamabad reined in Pakistan-based terror...
...also quite conceivable that a number of the Pakistani militants trained to spread terror across the border will respond to Musharraf's crackdown by launching a campaign of domestic terrorism against Musharraf's own regime and its secularist supporters. Or, if they were to take their cue from the radical Islamist opposition to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, they might refrain from directly targeting the Pakistani authorities but instead launch dramatic terror strikes inside India, hoping to provoke a full-blown...
...between India and Pakistan is averted, the countries will still have plenty of challenges between them--and on their own. Musharraf will have to explain to his people his crackdown on terrorism, which he used to call by a more glorified name. Lots of those people lived for the jihad that is now under such attack. "When I was a child, my mother wanted me to get settled in London," says Abu Haroon, 28, returned to Pakistan after two years fighting in Kashmir. "But I opted for jihad after one of my friends died in India. I abandoned my education...
Vajpayee doesn't much believe it, though. He suspects the crackdown Musharraf has begun on the terrorists will prove merely cosmetic. So he too has made a sharp shift, throwing off his almost avuncular detachment to launch a scary game of military brinkmanship. Pride and domestic politics lie behind that stroke; his party is facing an important state election, and the hard line he has adopted may help at the polls. But Vajpayee also owns a taste for boldness that he has demonstrated before. In 1998 he was the Prime Minister who ordered the atom-bomb tests that made India...
...that venture inspired Pakistan's military leaders to start helping insurgents fighting Indian rule in Kashmir, in hopes of equally spectacular dividends. The ISI even has a wing devoted to supporting the Kashmir insurgency. The Pakistani military initially trained indigenous Kashmiri militants, but in 1992--after a brutal Indian crackdown almost snuffed the separatist movement--it began funneling foreign jihadis to Kashmir, expecting their zeal would revive the conflict...