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...rebels back in the '80s? India certainly does, because one of them is reported to have taken down an Indian Air Force helicopter Friday in a battle against insurgents in Kashmir. "The Stinger is perhaps the surest sign that the infiltrators have an Afghan mujahedeen connection," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. But the guerrillas that occupied Indian military positions atop 17,000-feet-high mountain peaks are certainly no weekend warriors, leading to the accusations by India that Pakistan is behind the whole thing. "These guys moved into some of the worst terrain in the world...
...India's turn. Politically, the last thing either India or Pakistan can afford to do is to show weakness in relation to the other. So New Delhi is now bound to up the ante after Pakistan Thursday downed an Indian MiG-27 and claimed to have also hit an Indian MiG-21 that had crashed in the Kashmir border region. The two nuclear-armed states are once again jostling at the brink of full-blown war in Kashmir after India Wednesday began bombing some 600 Pakistan-backed guerrillas who had crossed into its territory...
...Although both governments want to avoid a slide into all-out war, India is determined to respond forcefully to the most serious incursion into its territory since 1948," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "Pakistan may be tempted to defend the infiltrators by attacking Indian planes, but that would mean a full-scale war." Pakistan has denied responsibility for the incursion by heavily armed insurgents, some of whom may have been trained in the Afghanistan camps of alleged superterrorist Osama Bin Laden. But Islamabad's protestations of innocence are dismissed in New Delhi, which insists that an incursion...
...being raised. Indian bombers and helicopter gunships attacked hundreds of suspected Pakistan-backed infiltrators Wednesday, with some of the bombs landed on the Pakistani side of the border. "This was the largest incursion into India since 1948, and the object is less military than political," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "By the choice of terrain, this looks less like an attempt to capture territory than a means of keeping international focus on Kashmir. Pakistan is concerned that if things remain quiet in the region, the world will forget about the long-standing dispute over the territory." Wednesday...
India's movie industry specializes in raucous mythological epics; melodramatic histrionics are the mainstay of Italian opera. The two worlds collided in New Delhi this week with the triumphant return to politics of Sonia Gandhi. The Italian-born widow of slain prime minister Rajiv Gandhi reclaimed the reins of her Congress party Tuesday, after rowdy protests, pleading deputations and even an attempted self-immolation by a despairing supporter coaxed her out of a self-imposed week in the political wilderness. Promising that "every drop of my blood belongs to this country," Gandhi galvanized party activists for a head-on battle...