Word: kargil
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...India and Pakistan have fought three of their four wars since independence over Kashmir, and have punctuated those wars with an almost constant pattern of exchanging fire over the Line of Control. In 1999, already in possession of nuclear weapons, the two armies fought a pitched battle in the Kargil region of Kashmir before pressure from Washington forced Pakistan to withdraw. In other words, they're practiced in the art of limiting their combat...
...Musharraf publicly denounces militant incursions from his side of the border, it would be political suicide for him to denounce their aims. Nor does the Pakistani President's rhetoric blind anyone to the memory that in 1999 he commanded the operation to seize strategic passes in the mountains of Kargil on the Indian side of the Line of Control (LOC). Moreover Musharraf's announcements of a crackdown on the militants ring more than a touch hollow. While five insurgent groups have been banned and bank accounts have been frozen, some of the arrested leaders have been freed, the bank accounts...
...necessarily fight a conventional war. For years it has pursued the Kashmir conflict through the proxy of Islamist guerrillas and terrorists. And although its nuclear doctrine is not yet clear, recent reports suggest that Pakistan actually mounted nuclear warheads atop missiles during the 1999 showdown with India over the Kargil section of Kashmir. Washington now has the unhappy task of averting a conflict every bit as intractable as the Israeli-Palestinian one, but with nuclear weapons on both sides...
...Their home is the disputed prize in what may be the most dangerous conflict on earth. In the early months of 1999, Pakistani soldiers took control of a mountain ridge on the Indian side of the Line of Control. In the spring, when they were discovered, that sparked the Kargil War, named for the region where it was fought. Both sides had tested nukes a few months earlier; last week in Washington, Bruce Riedel, senior director at the National Security Council, revealed that the Pakistani army, without informing its own government, had mobilized its nuclear arsenal at the height...
...reining in the ISI was to dump its chief, Ahmed. He and the President were once close friends and fellow plotters in the 1999 coup that brought Musharraf to power. But former comrades say that Ahmed experienced a battlefield epiphany up in the Himalayan peaks during the 1999 Kargil offensive against India. After that, he began to pursue his own radical Islamic agenda. At a Cabinet meeting, he once yelled at an official: "What do you know? You don't even go to prayers...