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...Manoj Joshi, author of Lost Rebellion: Kashmir in the 1990s, says all parties are equally to blame for dividing the state along religious lines. "And by blockading the Valley, they [Hindu hardliners] are making the Muslims more insecure and making them lean towards Pakistan." Joshi says, "It is a very dangerous game. One wonders how far they can go on playing with national interest...
...ruling Congress Party-led government found Muslims underrepresented in government jobs and faring badly in social indicators like household income and literacy. "When you have a community that has been brutalized, it is inevitable that there will be a pool of ready recruits," says political commentator Manoj Joshi, noting the anti-Muslim riots in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in 1993 and similar ones in Gujarat in 2002. "It is a very serious situation, which has arisen because our government has failed to accept the ground reality," says security analyst B. Raman, former head of the counterterrorism division of the Research...
Experts like Joshi believe that disgruntled Islamist extremists in India are now a part of the global jihad - "united by the Internet and cutting across class lines." Says Raman: "Over the last few years, [Indian Islamist terrorists] have expanded the ambit of their grievances from purely domestic issues to global issues like the U.S.-led war in Iraq. They are a part of the pan-Islamic agenda." Last year, two brothers, Indian Muslim doctors from Bangalore, were implicated in the abortive Glasgow attacks...
...know Pakistan's battle against terrorism has implications for us in India," says political commentator Manoj Joshi. "The dialogue with Musharraf has been, perhaps, the most sustained and productive ever. So I think there is a feeling that we should do nothing to simply blow it away." More importantly, India's avoidance of demanding a return to democracy in Pakistan may be attributed to the long-standing belief that to do business with Pakistan, one has to deal with the army. "The army is the only political party worth its name in Pakistan," says Ashok Behuria, research fellow...
...arch-rival Pakistan access to nuclear fuel and technology. Some in India say the leftist parties are playing right into China's hands. "What is remarkable about the left's self-view of India is how weak they think the country is," says media commentator and political analyst Manoj Joshi. "They may do well to remember that India - with its nuclear-tipped armed forces, 8 percent-plus growth rate and burgeoning foreign exchange reserves - has never been stronger...