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...PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN Fragile Allies By Tim McGirk | Islamabad...
...that Pakistan has failed to capture a single top Taliban commander, although U.S. and Afghan officials have evidence that dozens of rebel chiefs are living openly in the Pakistani border towns of Quetta and Peshawar. There is the perception in Kabul that, as one Afghan official put it, "if Islamabad can't have a satellite government in Afghanistan, their second option is to create chaos and keep the pot boiling...
...PASSED. A BILL allowing the death penalty for people convicted of so-called honor killings; by the lower house of Pakistan's National Assembly; in Islamabad. Under current law, the maximum penalty for relatives who kill female family members who commit adultery or marry without family permission is seven years in jail. In Pakistan last year, more than 1,200 women were murdered in honor killings...
...geography and ethnicity?and not necessarily on religion. (Muslims are in a majority in most parts of Kashmir.) Next, he said, both India and Pakistan would withdraw troops from these mini-regions, one by one. It would then be left up to the Kashmiris, along with New Delhi and Islamabad, to haggle over whether they wanted India and Pakistan to jointly administer the territories or place them under United Nations' control...
...geography and ethnicity - and not necessarily on religion. (Muslims are in a majority in most parts of Kashmir.) Next, he said, both India and Pakistan would withdraw troops from these mini-regions, one by one. It would then be left up to the Kashmiris, along with New Delhi and Islamabad, to haggle over whether they wanted India and Pakistan to jointly administer the territories or place them under U.N. control. Could it work? Former Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said: "Mapmaking has to stop in South Asia. Such attempts would not be acceptable [even] in disguise." Still...