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...While a handful of militants, unwilling to fight on without state protection, have been selling their AK-47s and SUVs in the markets of Pakistani Kashmir, others like Abu Khalid, a veteran of one 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...
...which their aspirations are addressed and accommodated," for some it's too late. Mogli Begum Sheikh, 45, is the matriarch of an extended family living on a small holding just north of Srinagar that counts no less than 10 widows and 24 orphans in its ranks. Since 1995, when Indian soldiers shot dead Sheikh's nephew Ali Mohammad Sheikh, who was a militant, 17 male family members and one female have died at the hands of both soldiers and separatists in an orgy of reprisals and counterattacks. On one occasion in 1997, a group of unidentified gunmen marched seven...
...Will he get along with a family he won't recognize? Will he handle the disruption that will come to Uroosa if the nearby road from Srinagar to Muzaffarabad reopens? Will he ever be able to sleep through the night or hear wind rattling his windows without thinking the Indian army is knocking on his door? The prospect of change has brought another fear. "I'm starting to breathe freely, and the pressure has begun to lift, and I'm coming alive," Khan confides. "But suddenly I'm thinking, 'Don't hope too much. We've been here before...
...Christmas Day was so close that God must have been on the side of the general. Pakistan's government blamed Kashmir militants once supported by Musharraf, now aggrieved by his neglect. Eleven days later the SAARC meeting began in Islamabad, and the initial signals were tentative at best. When Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee arrived, his Pakistani counterpart, Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, tried to greet him with a hug. Vajpayee smiled cordially but took a step back. When Vajpayee departed three days later, the hug between the two men was warm and reciprocal...
...Musharraf declared that credit for the rapprochement went to Vajpayee's "vision, commitment and flexibility"?and it's been a very long time since a Pakistani leader has praised an Indian Prime Minister so sincerely. Simultaneously, Pakistan gave a written commitment that it would "not permit any territory under [its] control to be used to support terrorism in any manner," the most definitive response to India's constant drum thump on that issue?and, presumably, a reaction to the attempts on Musharraf's life...