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...many questions remain. Because of its economic awakening, India faces environmental crises ranging from a dwindling safe drinking water supply to enormous pollution and overcrowding problems in its cities. Despite the technological boom, hundreds of millions of Indians still live in desperate conditions of poverty. And the situation in Kashmir has grown increasingly tense over the past year, especially after Pakistani-supported militants stepped up attempts to capture the strategic Kargil Pass...
...danger of renewed hostilities with Pakistan may have been the most pressing of President Clinton's concerns on his India trip, but they were never going to be the issues on which he made substantial progress. Against the backdrop of a massacre of some 40 civilians in Kashmir by suspected Pakistan-backed Islamic militants, India's Prime Minster Atal Behari Vajpayee and President Clinton held talks in New Delhi and pretty much agreed to disagree on matters nuclear, even as they vowed to strengthen their relationship and hold regular summits. Vajpayee reiterated India's policy of maintaining a "minimum nuclear...
...latest killings in Kashmir simply highlight the difficulty of managing India-Pakistan relations. While President Clinton said they underlined the need for dialogue with Pakistan, Mr. Vajapayee warned that "we have the will and the means to eliminate this menace." There's considerable pressure in New Delhi to punish Pakistan for the low-key anti-India insurgency it helps sustain in Kashmir. So what Clinton recently described as "the most dangerous region in the world" is likely to stay pretty dangerous, although the President hopes to make the danger more manageable by strengthening Washington's relationship with leaders on both...
...Friday shooting came a day after Raad had begun to present Nawaz's defense, arguing that the coup plot against him originated after he met with President Clinton last June and agreed to withdraw Pakistani forces who had crossed into Indian territory at Kargil in the disputed territory of Kashmir. Pakistan's military was widely reported to have fiercely opposed the decision to retreat...