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...accords are hardly specific. But the latest agreements between India and Pakistan should not be dismissed lightly, either. Over the weekend at a historic summit meeting in Pakistan, the leaders of the two countries agreed to keep talking about many of the issues that separate them -- including control of Kashmir -- and to take confidence-building measures aimed at reducing the risk of nuclear war between the two countries. "What an unexpected change of course!" says TIME Washington deputy bureau chief Jef McAllister...
...answer to that question ultimately lies in dealing with Kashmir, the disputed region between Pakistan and India, Kamal said. He is currently pushing...
...article in Tuesday's paper on the speech by Kashmiri religious leader Mirwaiz Umaz Farooq mistakenly attributed the following quotation to Imraan R. Mir '00: "Ultimately he represents a voice in the Kashmir government that is important especially after India and Pakistan have detonated the atomic bomb. Also, this represents a different point of view. Everyone always says, `Pakistan is a bastard,' or `India is a bastard,' [but] we never hear Kashmir's voice...
Farooq was the first elected chair of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, a coalition of more than 20 different organizations who want to end Indian occupation and who want the self-determination of Kashmir. Though he is no longer chair, he still serves as a main representative to the conference...
Farooq is also the religious head of the Muslims of Kashmir, a position that has been handed down from father to son in his family for 13 generations...