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...have agreed to resume air and road links next month, as well as restore full diplomatic relations, which they suspended 17 months ago. But both sides know that any hope of peace talks could easily be sabotaged by a violent incident like the March 24 massacre of 24 Kashmiri Hindus by unidentified gunmen. Indeed, convincing the militants to hand over their Kalashnikovs is the key to peace in Kashmir?and it may prove impossible. Says Pervez Hoodbhoy, a South Asia expert at the Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad: "There are extremists who want to torpedo these negotiations...
...view is shared by many Pakistani military officers: backing the Kashmiri militants, whose ranks are swelled with Pakistani recruits itching for a holy war against the Hindus, has been a low-risk and cheap way to tie up hundreds of thousands of Indian troops in the freezing mountains of Kashmir. But some Pakistani intellectuals are starting to argue another line: that after 14 years of guerrilla fighting and more than 30,000 deaths in Kashmir, the Indians are not backing down. "You can't keep following this path if it leads nowhere," Hoodbhoy says. This opinion is gaining currency among...
Muslims and Hindus were inheriting a divided subcontinent from Britain, made up of Pakistan and India. Already the legalistic partition had led to deadly rioting. But one important division had yet to be announced, that of Punjab, a rich province with a volatile mix of Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus. A decision had been made on Aug. 12, but Mountbatten had ordered its details unpublished until two days after India's independence. He foresaw chaos and wanted British responsibility for it to be moot by the time the screaming started over the new borders. No preparations were therefore made to control...
...Abdul Majid Dar, an ex-militant who had been calling for negotiations, was assassinated. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed is trying a "healing touch" policy, hoping goodwill gestures-for example, disbanding "counterinsurgency squads" and releasing detained militants-point toward peace. Scores of Muslims aided Nadimarg's Hindus after the murders, but this dispute makes goodwill hard to sustain...
...documentary on the state of the country. As a long-time reporter in Bangladesh, I was delighted to take the job. But these are perilous times in my homeland. The government holds power with the help of fundamentalist Islamic groups that are changing Bangladesh's secular character; local Hindus and Christians are fleeing to neighboring India in the thousands, and the authorities are furious at media reports that Bangladesh is playing host to jihadis from Afghanistan and beyond. Rather than address these concerns, the government has systematically muzzled journalists and opposition leaders who try to get the story out. Since...