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...only Muslim-majority state. Almost as many Muslims have remained in India as live in Pakistan, but Pakistan has had the worst of four wars between the neighbors. For two decades, a succession of Pakistani military leaders has made it a point to support, finance, equip and train Islamist militants to conduct terrorist operations in India. The logic was clear: it was more cost-effective to bleed India from within than to challenge it through more conventional military means. Kashmiri militancy against Indian rule was fomented and supported by Pakistan, though India's own domestic problems - including the occasional eruption...
...Zardari, Benazir Bhutto's widower, realizes that India's enemies in Pakistan are also his own: the very forces of Islamist extremism responsible for his wife's assassination were also behind the bombing of Islamabad's Marriott Hotel in September. The militancy once sponsored by the Pakistani military as a foreign policy tool now threatens to abort Pakistan's sputtering democracy. There has never been a stronger case for firm and united action by the governments of both India and Pakistan to cauterize the cancer in their midst...
...cooperate with India in exposing and apprehending the culprits and masterminds" behind the attacks. But this is not an objective unanimously shared in Islamabad. The terrorists and their patrons clearly wish to derail any moves in the direction of harmony between the two countries, which would thwart their destructive Islamist agenda. They enjoy the sympathy of elements in the military, whose disproportionate share of the country's national budget would be threatened by peace with India. And the country's civilian government dares not cross the red lines drawn by the military for fear of being toppled. Every civilian Pakistani...
...sacrificing a handful of top officials may not save the Congress Party and its allies from a drubbing at the state polls. The opposition Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has leaped at the opportunity to leverage the threat of Islamist terrorism and government security failures to its advantage as voters prepare to go to the polls in key state elections later this month. Just days after the terrorists occupied ritzy hotels and killed some 195 people, the BJP printed posters in New Delhi proclaiming itself to be the party that would have prevented such attacks. The turnout for state...
...come into rooms, and start coming into the upper levels. Then I saw on TV that they were targeting American and British citizens, and I thought my Australian [passport] wouldn't save me. Especially since I'm a Jew, and what could be worse when confronted by an Islamist terrorist...