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...Kashmir on the Brink...
India and Pakistan must overcome their mutual hatred and not pass it on to future generations [WORLD, June 10]. After the Kashmir problem is solved, neither leader of these nations should create war hysteria to gain political advantage. Ethics in politics and elimination of the root causes of tension are prerequisites to breaking the cycle of terrorism. OWAIS JAFREY Seattle...
Incursions into Kashmir across the Line of Control and the attack on the Indian Parliament are clearly terrorist acts, no less cruel than those of Sept. 11. How can we win the war on terror with leaders like Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who shows solidarity with the U.S. in its fight against al-Qaeda on Pakistan's western borders and at the same time supports Kashmiri militants on Pakistan's eastern borders, dubbing their acts those of freedom fighters? SANJAY AMLADI New Brunswick...
...heading up the same line just behind it. Twenty-one of the passenger train's 22 cabins derailed, making it difficult for rescuers to get to the injured. INDIA Attacks Resume Eight Indian soldiers and five suspected militants were among 20 people killed in separate incidents in Indian-administered Kashmir. Various radical groups took responsibility for the attacks, which came as Defense Minister George Fernandes said that Indian forces would remain deployed in Kashmir until fall elections. PHILIPPINES Lost at Sea President Gloria Arroyo called off a search for the body of the Muslim rebel Abu Sabaya, believed to have...
...world." There have always been some Americans--or longtime residents of the U.S.--connected to al-Qaeda. For years there have been rumors of Americans in the Afghan terrorist camps, and an American, originally from Georgia, is reported to have died in 1998 while fighting with Islamic militias in Kashmir. But with the salient exception of John Walker Lindh, a Taliban soldier captured in Afghanistan last year, most Americans connected with Islamic terrorism were born in Arab lands. Both the CIA and the State Department deny published reports that a number of Americans were arrested in Pakistan last week, though...