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...region," which has been on a war footing since the December attack on India's Parliament, blamed on Pakistani militants. As troops traded shots in Kashmir, four policemen were killed at a U.S. cultural center in Calcutta and a bomb exploded near the British High Commission in Islamabad...
...Noted "We are working hard to convince the Indians and the Pakis there's a way to deal with their problems without going to war." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, on efforts to calm hostilities between New Delhi and Islamabad...
...being behind Tuesday's massacre), Al Badr, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and others are essentially Pakistani organizations, whose members include large number of Punjabis and Afghanis committed to a "jihad" against India. And the fact that they may have some support in Pakistani security circles to act in defiance of Islamabad's wishes has to worry Musharraf...
...Although the Clinton administration had considered staying away from Pakistan in light of the coup and unhappiness in Washington over Islamabad's efforts in the fight against terrorism, the President elected to go in the belief that a personal relationship with General Musharraf could be critical to resolving future crises in an unstable region - as his personal relationship with Nawaz had helped end the Kargil standoff. The fact that President Clinton's old friend Nawaz is now saying General Musharraf launched his coup in retaliation for the Pakistani premier's doing Washington's bidding - and the assassination of his lawyer...
...Pakistan actively backs the Kashmiri separatist organizations that the hijackers support, but Islamabad has vehemently denied any involvement in the incident - and at one point even accused India of hijacking its own plane in order to point a finger at Pakistan. While Pakistan's military ruler, General Parvez Musharraf, officially condemned the hijacking, his armed forces - still smarting from their political defeat in last year's attempted land grab in the Indian-controlled section of Kashmir - don't appear set to rein in anti-Indian terrorism originating within Pakistani borders. Maulana Masood Azhar, the Pakistani cleric whose release from...