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...between the two countries started off in Kashmir. Since the beginning of the year, both have mobilized their armies along their common border and kept them at high alert, a state of war readiness prompted by a December terrorist attack intended to blow up the Parliament building in New Delhi. And last week, 30 people were killed by some fidayeen, a suicide squad that sneaked in from Pakistan, setting off a fresh round of accusations, the possible expulsion of Pakistan's ambassador from New Delhi, and some heavy shelling at the Line of Control, the de facto border that splits...
...attack in Jammu was no ordinary strike at India. It occurred the very day that a senior U.S. diplomat, Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca, was in New Delhi trying to arm-twist some peace. After the attack on Parliament in December, India went to war footing, demanding that Pakistan crack down on its anti-India terrorists?almost all of them working to stir trouble in Kashmir?and demanded the extradition to India of 20 named terrorist suspects. Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf ordered some militants arrested?many of whom have been subsequently released?and refused to extradite any of those...
...fact, India probably won't be goaded into military action by a well-timed terrorist attack. State elections are due by October in Kashmir, and New Delhi has hopes that they will take some steam out of the indigenous militancy. Many of the candidates are former insurgents won over by the government. (India's time-honored method of defusing insurgencies is to woo tired separatists to run for election, after which they can get their hands on loosely-watched government coffers...
...Once the elections are over, however, all bets are off as to whether the peace will hold. Pakistani-based separatists will filter across the Line of Control all through the summer. Then the attacks, ambushes and suicide missions will start. The talk in New Delhi these days is of some kind of war in September or October. It's pretty clear where it will start: Kashmir...
...gunmen killed 34 people in a raid on the Kaluchak army base in Jammu. The dead were mainly women and included 11 children. Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee told Parliament last Friday that the "massacre of innocents" meant that India would "have to retaliate." A day later, New Delhi expelled the Pakistani High Commissioner. Since December, the two countries have mobilized some 1 million troops along the border. THE NETHERLANDS Wheel of Fortuyn After an election campaign overshadowed by the assassination of anti-immigrant populist Pim Fortuyn, Dutch voters roundly rejected all three parties in Prime Minister...