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...second car bomber fail to kill Musharraf in their Dec. 25 attempt, but the memory card of Jamil's cell phone, which investigators found intact amid the detritus of the blasts, has led authorities to dozens of suspected collaborators. Many belong to a violent Pakistani extremist group, Jaish-e-Muhammad. Once allied with Musharraf's government, the group is now linked to al-Qaeda, whose leader, Osama bin Laden, called for Musharraf's overthrow in a recent audiotape...
...Second, the end of American ambiguity toward terrorism is beginning to work. Its allies in the war against terror, including Musharraf, cannot sustain a policy of equivocation. Pakistan-based organizations such as Jaish-e-Mohammad or Lashkar-e-Toiba, dedicated to keeping the Kashmir fire burning, find their profile has changed: instead of heroes, they have become the hunted. It is not only India that wants them now, but also their own government...
...extremist groups that in the past fed fighters to the Kashmir cause, carried out sectarian killings and attacked Westerners. In January 2002, at the insistence of the U.S., Musharraf banned five such groups. Yet the government has allowed them to resurface under new names. Abdul Rauf Azhar, formerly of Jaish-e-Muhammad, says, "We are still doing our work...
...Colleagues and Pakistani fixers who had worked with Pearl in Karachi, Rawalpindi and Bahawalpur deny that the Journal correspondent has been working on a story about Pakistani nukes. And while the ISI may well have been linked with the Kashmir-focused terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed, to which Sheikh belonged, it?s a stretch to extrapolate from there that the ISI backed or ordered Pearl?s killing. For one thing, sources say, it?s not the ISI?s style to hire hire Yemenis or Arabs, the nationalities of the accomplices, to do the job. And if the ISI didn...
...many Kashmiris dreamed of peace between the Indian army and Pakistan-backed militants. Some guerrillas renounced violence, India and Pakistan began tentative rapprochement, and tourists returned in droves. But since Aug. 30, when Indian security forces in Srinagar shot dead Gazi Baba, the Kashmir chief of Pakistani militant outfit Jaish-e-Muhammad and suspected mastermind of the December 2001 attack on India's parliament, violence has returned. More than 230 people have now died in a frenzy of battles and assassinations. The toll includes several high-profile figures: in addition to Gazi Baba, Jaish-e-Muhammad lost two other senior...