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...India seems to have calculated correctly. While expressing concern at the prospect of war, U.S. President George W. Bush has said he understands India's anger and frustration. European Union external affairs commissioner Chris Patten, who visited New Delhi and Islamabad last week, described India's patience as "stretched almost beyond breaking point" and the situation as on a "knife edge." Bush has stopped short of publicly admonishing Pakistan, Washington's key ally in the war on terror, but he's dispatching burly Undersecretary of State Richard Armitage to Islamabad next week, and his mission will be to deliver...
...Exactly what New Delhi is planning remains a mystery. "Wait and watch," was Vajpayee's heavy warning last week in Srinagar. Both sides have taken care not to publically flaunt their nuclear capabilities: Islamabad swiftly denounced one hard-line minister who did. Vajpayee told local newspaper editors in Jammu that as a first step New Delhi was considering abandoning a treaty that ensures the free flow of three rivers including the Indus, which originate in Indian-administered Kashmir and run through the mountains to irrigate Pakistan's northeastern bread basket. A second option is surgical strikes by the air force...
...Some hitherto unknown militant group claimed responsibility and India immediately blamed its neighbor, announcing that a chocolate bar carried by one of the terrorists was made in Pakistan. Islamabad, as usual, denounced the carnage, denied complicity and added that India had no real proof. It's a familiar pattern. Gruesome attacks against Indian targets?frequently suicidal?have been a regular feature of the Kashmir imbroglio for the past decade...
...years ago by a previous military dictator, Zia ul-Haq. Human rights activists say the laws, and their abuse, help promote the very extremism that Musharraf is trying to fight in Pakistan. When Musharraf first learned of Zafran Bibi's case during a meeting with foreign reporters in Islamabad earlier this month, he was startled. "Is that the law? Now? I don't even know," he said. But he promised that Zafran Bibi would not be stoned to death and, two weeks ago, a Peshawar court temporarily suspended the sentence. Human rights activists say this isn't enough. "As long...
...militant group to which most of the kidnap suspects belong, is under what a diplomat dubbed "country club" arrest at his home in Bahawalpur. Despite Musharraf's Jan. 12 ban on five extremist groups, most of their firebrand leaders were recently set free, a move that perplexed diplomats in Islamabad. "We didn't have enough proof to charge them," a Pakistani official said with a shrug...