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...prominent al-Qaeda or Taliban leaders - but not those most sought by the U.S., or three former Taliban government officials who surrendered to the new Afghan government and were mysteriously released. Interim leader Hamid Karzai called for the formation of a national army to promote political and social stability. KASHMIR On a Knife Edge India massed its forces along the border with Pakistan declaring it was ready for war, despite the arrest in Pakistan of more than 200 extremists. In a televised speech, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf condemned terrorism, banned some militant groups and announced stricter regulation of religious schools...
...According to government reports, Walker joined a paramilitary camp in May of 2001, where he was advised by fellow trainees to tell anyone who asked that he was Irish, not American. After his training, he was given a choice of traveling to Kashmir or fighting in Afghanistan with the Taliban. He chose to join the Taliban, telling his superiors, "I am a Muslim, ready to go to the front lines to fight...
...again. The crucial test, however, will come from within his own security services. The Islamist organizations targeted by General Musharraf have served as de facto proxies for Pakistan's intelligence services, cultivating a reserve of militant Pakistanis willing to be recruited and trained for jihad both in Afghanistan and Kashmir, in service not only to their own brand of radical Islam but also of the unofficial dirty war being waged against India in Kashmir. During the course of the U.S. operation in Afghanistan, Musharraf was forced to mount a top-level purge in his own military, tacitly acknowledging the widespread...
...Still, Musharraf had no choice, and not simply because of the Indian troops massing on his border demanding action against the perpetrators of recent terror strikes in New Delhi and Srinagar. Even inside Pakistan, the militant groups cultivated by the intelligence services to provide an army of jihadis for Kashmir had evolved into uncontrollable armed groups that fomented violence against Shiite Muslims, Christians and other Pakistani minorities. As General Musharraf noted in his speech last Saturday, they have come to represent a threat to Pakistan's own internal stability and even its long-term survival. "Violence and terrorism have been...
...Even if Musharraf succeeds in shutting down the extremists, of course, the Kashmir question remains to be resolved. The general made clear in his speech that the struggle for the disputed territory remains at the heart of Pakistan's national identity, although he appears to have conceded the principle that Pakistan can no longer get directly involved in insurgent activity in Indian-controlled Kashmir even though he recognized the right of Kashmiris themselves to take up arms against India. By shutting down terrorism, in fact, Musharraf potentially strengthens Pakistan's diplomatic position in calling for an internationally mediated political solution...