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...Things do not happen with a click of the fingers." Maulana Abbas Ansari, chairman of Kashmir's largest separatist group, on peace talks in New Delhi with the Indian government...
...peace summit at Agra between Vajpayee and President Musharraf collapses. In December, Pakistani militants attack the Indian Parliament complex in New Delhi, ratcheting up tensions...
...tour in Indian Kashmir, are vowing to continue. "Jihad is our Islamic duty," he says. "Nobody can stop us, not even Musharraf. If Musharraf stops our food, we will not die of hunger. God will arrange it from somewhere else." In fact, argues Ajai Sahni, of the New Delhi-based Institute for Conflict Management, Musharraf's pledge to end support for the militants could encourage a surge in violence, especially when the snow has melted in the spring. "If they don't act," he says, "the jihad is over...
...uncertainties dogging Kashmir's peace process, perhaps the biggest is whether a land so soaked in blood and suffering can ever move beyond the past, regardless of what is decided in New Delhi or Islamabad. Between 35,000 people (India's figure) and 70,000 (Pakistan's figure) have died in the violence since 1989, largely in the Kashmiri valley. Moderate Kashmiris warn that the past few years in the valley have seen a rapid spread of the hard-line Islamic faith of Wahhabism?the chosen creed of Osama bin Laden, among others?in an area previously dominated...
...India and Pakistan must rise above the rigidity of past demands (like the big nonstarter?a Kashmir plebiscite) and look for an option that is honorable, acceptable and sustainable. It must satisfy the Kashmiri need for honor; it must be acceptable to New Delhi; and unless Pakistan signs on, no agreement can be sustained. If they can achieve all that, the next war between India and Pakistan will be fought in March and April, a war guaranteed to drive millions of people delirious: the upcoming cricket Test matches. That's the only kind of war we want...