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...responded by halting its artillery attacks along the Line of Control and suggested tripartite negotiations involving India, Pakistan and Kashmiri representatives. It also announced the withdrawal of some military units. With these careful, calibrated moves?encouraged and supported by the international community?the prospect of Kashmir settlement talks between Islamabad's military regime and the New Delhi government improved. India's decision to allow the Hurriyat leaders to fly to Pakistan to talk to the fanatical militants showed that New Delhi was looking for a credible political solution, although it has still not issued travel documents to the extremists...
...months ago success seemed at hand. A faction of the Hizbul Mujahedin, the biggest and most important Kashmiri militant group, emerged from the mountains for ceasefire talks. But Islamabad was caught off-guard and the group's Pakistan-based leaders sabotaged the initiative by demanding a seat at the talks for Pakistan, a condition the Indians would not accept...
...Pakistani army and the country's religious right. These groups, which have a good deal of leverage over Musharraf, threaten not only a possible Kashmir peace but Pakistan's own stability. "The Pakistani government is in a stituation where it supports jihadi groups," says a Western diplomat in Islamabad. "They have built a fundamentalist fifth column and if they do a deal (with India on Kashmir), all these groups could presumably go crazy." The militants, moreover, are central to Pakistan's traditional foreign policy of keeping the Kashmir issue alive and urgent, which allows Islamabad to keep the pressure...
Four bearded militants warm themselves at a gas heater in an Islamabad safe house. A wireless set suddenly crackles. "Our boys have entered Srinagar Airport," a grave, distant-sounding voice announces. "Pray for them. It has now been 15 minutes." The voice, speaking in Urdu and broadcasting from deep within India's part of Kashmir, is detailing the progress of a suicide mission by Lashkar-i-Taiba, a ruthless, Pakistan-based militant group waging war to wrest Kashmir from India. The four men in the safe house, also members of Lashkar-i-Taiba, immediately go into fervent prayer. They...
...them away, and the operation was aborted. Two weeks ago, however, a second attempt succeeded. Six would-be martyrs, dressed in police uniforms and driving a stolen government jeep, reached the outer defense gate of the airport and indiscriminately tossed grenades and opened fire with rifles. Back in the Islamabad safe house, a coded message came through at 2:15 p.m. saying the men had reached their target. Abu Ammar, a 30-year-old Pakistani veteran of the Afghan war?his face is scarred from shrapnel and his right hand is mangled?knelt and touched his forehead to the floor...