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...DELHI: Testing nuclear weapons may have, ironically, brought India and Pakistan closer together. "They're both facing sanctions, which are beginning to hurt," says TIME New Delhi bureau chief Tim McGirk, "and the only way to get sanctions lifted is by making some kind of effort toward nonproliferation and de-escalating nuclear tension." Today India announced that peace talks with Pakistan -- stalled since last year -- would resume on June 22, even as tensions continued over terrorist attacks in Pakistan and that country's missile development program...
...With reporting by Jay Branegan/Washington, Hannah Bloch/Islamabad, Tim McGirk/New Delhi and Jaime A. FlorCruz/Beijing
What does a guy have to do to get into the Nuclear Club? New Delhi and Islamabad may well ask, after the Big Five today ruled that despite testing atomic weapons, India and Pakistan "do not have the status of nuclear weapons states." Meeting in Geneva, the U.S., Russia, Britain, France and China agreed to mount a coordinated campaign against further escalation in the Indo-Pakistani arms race, but refused to recognize the countries as nuclear states in terms of the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which reserves that status for the Five. TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell believes...
...delegation to Washington at the end of May to discuss how India's nuclear tests two weeks ago have affected their security concerns. American officials believe it's unlikely Islamabad would explode its bomb before that meeting. Oddly, this restraint is making India nervous, as shown by New Delhi's bellicose statements about the power of its nuclear blasts and about Kashmir, the Himalayan region that's divided between the countries. The State Department suspects that India, uncomfortable with the condemnation it has received, is trying to goad Pakistan into conducting a test. "The Indians would like nothing better than...
...Still, both were equally jubilant Friday. Celebrations on the streets of Islamabad were matched in New Delhi by what TIME bureau chief Tim McGirk calls "a profound mood of relief that India is no longer alone in being ostracized." Whether such emotions are justified, given the plunging rupee in India and the boarded-up banks in Pakistan, is another question. McGirk also reports a "serious risk" of conflict in the disputed border region of Kashmir -- claims and counterclaims of militant infiltration that "would not go nuclear immediately" but may eventually risk the world's first atomic war. The subcontinent...