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...most powerful political clan. He's expected to win the elections and succeed his father as chief minister. On the other side, the anti-election All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an alliance of 26 political, social and religious parties that adamantly opposes Indian rule, was co-founded by Mirwaiz Omar Farooq, a 29-year-old moderate cleric known for his openness to others' views...
...This rising willingness to break with the past has prompted all sides to rethink. Hurriyat's Farooq has made an intriguing compromise: he supports the call for candidates to boycott these "irrelevant" elections, but hasn't asked Kashmir's voters not to participate. "People must let their conscience decide," he says...
...kingfishers, green parrots and black and yellow longtails. Kashmir in May?as the snow pulls back through the damp pine forests and ponies wander through flower-filled grasslands?is perhaps the most beautiful war zone of all. "Sometimes you wish it was just a little less pretty," sighs Omar Farooq, Kashmir's young spiritual leader and leading moderate separatist. "Maybe then not so many people would want...
...minute amateur video of the mummy, with a 1990 date stamp, featured close-ups of its gold crown and breastplate. The asking price: $10 million. The possession of antiquities older than 50 years is a crime in Pakistan, as is their forgery; Karachi's deputy superintendent of police, Muhammad Farooq Awan, arrested the video's distributor, who led police to Quetta, Baluchistan's rugged provincial capital. There, Awan and his team raided the home of Wali Muhammad Reeki, a powerful tribal chief who keeps two pet camels on his estate and has a taste for their milk. Reeki took...
...through which India made secret overtures to the Hurriyat leaders in Srinagar and Kashmiri insurgents inside India and Pakistan, often through contacts in the Middle East. Mishra insisted that intelligence agencies brief him directly on all operations in Kashmir. He sidelined Kashmir's top elected official, Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, a figure whose political power rests more on his late father Sheikh Abdullah's reputation as a Kashmiri patriot than on popular support...