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...Month January saw peace threatening to break out in a number of global hot spots, as if world leaders had made a collective New Year's resolution for harmony. India and Pakistan - who not so long ago were at the nuclear brink over Kashmir - met for warm talks in Islamabad and promised to keep talking. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared the commitment to talk a victory "for all those peace-loving people of the world." Syria and Turkey also seem to have gotten over long-standing territorial feuds: last week, Bashar Assad became the first Syrian leader ever to visit...
...talks could start, and Pakistan vowed its territory would no longer serve as a terrorist base. For some, the portents have never been so good. "You could not have a better configuration of domestic politics in both countries," says Rifaat Hussain of the defense and strategic studies department at Islamabad's Quaid-I-Azam University. "Vajpayee is looking strong, and I've never seen such support for Musharraf...
...bloodless coup. Pakistan's economy is the healthiest it's been in years?GDP grew more than 5% in 2003?while chances for peace in strife-torn Kashmir appear greater than at any time in recent memory: over the weekend, Musharraf welcomed to his capital city of Islamabad leaders from six South Asian countries, including his nemesis Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, against whom he almost went to war in 2001 over Kashmir...
...military hotly denies the possibility of complicity in the ranks. However, the President is being more cautious. Last weekend, 10,000 security personnel, including soldiers brandishing machine guns at key intersections in Islamabad, descended on the capital in preparation for the regional South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) conference. And last week's oath-taking by Nazim Hussain Siddiqi, the new Chief Justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court, was held at Musharraf's Rawalpindi residence rather than the grand presidential palace in Islamabad, the customary venue. "That's like having your Chief Justice sworn in at the Pentagon," says...
...surprise cease-fire - the first in 14 years - along the Line of Control, their de facto border in the disputed territory. Whether Indian PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee will hold talks with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on the sidelines of a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit in Islamabad in January, however, is unclear. Peace Threat SRI LANKA Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran warned the country's divided leadership he would revive his demands for an independent state if the peace process remained stalled. He denied accusations by President Chandrika Kumaratunga that the rebels are using the current truce...