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...never been stronger. His internal Kashmir policy is succeeding. Last October's free state election, which he insisted on, has led to a genuinely representative government in Srinagar and removed a persistent grievance of Kashmiris. Vajpayee can use this positive development as leverage with both the Kashmiris and with Islamabad. He can also argue that the best way to keep the U.S. out of the conversation is to begin his own dialogue with Pakistan, before the superpower begins to dictate what the region should look like...
...President George W. Bush sent Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, an ex-wrestler, to New Delhi and Islamabad last week to lend support?and apply pressure. Before Armitage landed, leaders from both countries were quick to show Washington they were actively pushing for peace. In addition to hurling cricket balls, India and Pakistan 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...
...cropped beard, is one of them. Eyes ablaze, Saad?who prefers not to disclose his full name for security reasons?continues to talk of unending war in Kashmir. These days, however, he's not so sure of high-level support within Pakistan. For an interview at his home in Islamabad, he insists we drive a mazelike route because, he claims, Pakistani intelligence agents, who were once his friends and mentors, are now keeping him under surveillance. Saad says he commands 70 fighters?a fraction of the 2,000 to 3,000 guerrillas who, according to the Indian military, are still...
...that there was nothing happening" across the Line of Control and that guerrilla camps in Pakistan's Kashmir territory either no longer existed or "would be gone tomorrow." If Pakistan does indeed seal off the Kashmir border, as the U.S. is insisting, some militant groups will wither, starved of Islamabad's covert training, arms and cash. Already in Muzaffarabad, the main city in Pakistan's side of Kashmir, unemployed jihadis are scraping through by driving cabs and tending shops. Their commanders had to sell off fleets of four wheel-drive vehicles, gifts from the Pakistani intelligence agencies. But Saad hasn...
...case the upcoming dialogue between India and Pakistan fails to yield any progress. Then, says one commander from the Lashkar-e-Toiba, Pakistan's support will resume?covertly, as before. Several of the militants interviewed by Time failed to mask their sense of betrayal by Islamabad. "We feel helpless because we never thought that Pakistan would stop supporting us," says one ex-militant from the Lashkar-e-Toiba who recently gave up his cross-border attacks out of frustration. This indicates that ISI, despite its many denials of helping the militants, still flexes some power over the groups' chiefs...