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...decrying the killings and admonishing Pakistan to respect Kashmir's de facto border. But years of international pressure have failed to help resolve the Kashmir issue; local efforts are faring no better. On March 22, Abdul Majid Dar, an ex-militant who had been calling for negotiations, was assassinated. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed is trying a "healing touch" policy, hoping goodwill gestures-for example, disbanding "counterinsurgency squads" and releasing detained militants-point toward peace. Scores of Muslims aided Nadimarg's Hindus after the murders, but this dispute makes goodwill hard to sustain...
...incendiary focal point for most of these fanatics, once again, is Kashmir. As the second phase of elections in the state of Jammu and Kashmir got underway last week?touted as a step towards fair and representative self-rule in the long-troubled region?the Indian Prime Minister asserted that the process proved his commitment to Kashmiri sovereignty and, despite claims to the contrary from local residents, support for Indian stewardship. Meanwhile, Musharraf, forced by the U.S. to retreat from supporting an insurgency movement in Kashmir, discovered that the anger of Pakistan's domestic jihadis is a destructive force that...
...countries searching for a response. India has, in a sense, given the militants cover to claim their motive as redress for earlier mistreatment, without mentioning Kashmir. New Delhi insisted this was a terrorist canard?the latest investigations suggest the temple assailants, both Pakistani, had probably arrived by train from Jammu and Kashmir that same afternoon?but it still clouds the picture of the country's enemies and leaves the door open to additional attacks, and potential retaliation. Furthermore, it puts Vajpayee in an increasingly tight spot between the international community and the hard-core elements of his own party, which...
...separatists. The Indian Election Commision said 42% of voters cast their ballots across three districts. Turnout was low in some Muslim- majority areas with a polling center at Habba Khadal, near the summer capital Srinagar, registering just 1% of the electorate. Polling in the two other districts, Budgam and Jammu, was said to be much brisker, with turnout as high as 59% and 70% in two Hindu-majority constituencies. This was despite two violent incidents between security forces and militants that left six separatists dead. CHINA Stairway from Hell Four school officials in northern China were arrested after 21 teenage...
Indian consumers are used to bombardment by splashy, sometimes cheeky advertisements, but tolerance has its limits. Citizens were outraged by the latest newspaper ad for Cadbury's chocolate, featuring a map of India with the state of Jammu and Kashmir?including disputed regions claimed by both India and Pakistan?stamped with the slogan "too good to share." Politicians condemned the campaign for trivializing a sensitive conflict that has cost thousands of lives and keeps the two nuclear-armed countries on the brink of war. "It just shows how multinationals will exploit anything for commercial purposes," complained Vinod Tawde, Bombay branch...