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...referring to the hard-line governor appointed by New Delhi in January to stamp out the 22-month-old rebellion in India's sole state with a Muslim majority. On Friday the governor resigned, and will be replaced by Girish Saxena, Prime Minister V.P. Singh's security adviser on Kashmir...
...Minister Benazir Bhutto last week. She had just returned from a week-long tour of eight Middle Eastern countries, where she was seeking support for the Kashmiris' right to self-determination. While some Kashmiri militants favor an independent state of their own, Bhutto rejected that idea as "extremely dangerous." Kashmir's freedom, she insisted, was "the freedom to join Pakistan." In the process, she said, armed conflict with India could not be ruled out, "but we do not believe war is inevitable...
...distrust and hatred between primarily Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan have exploded into war three times, twice (in 1947 and 1965) over the fate of Kashmir. The issue is no closer to peaceful resolution today than it was when the two nations were created by the British partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Kashmiris have again shaken life into the dispute with a rebellion against Indian rule that has cost nearly 600 lives so far this year. The struggle has produced not only talk of war but also an escalation of military moves on both sides of the border...
...even fear that such a conflict could lead to the first use of nuclear weapons since 1945. India exploded its initial nuclear device in 1974, and Pakistan is widely believed to have a nuclear weapon. The catalyst for this potential catastrophe is the rebellion in the beautiful Vale of Kashmir, an 87-mile-long valley that is home to more than half the state's 7 million people -- 65% of them Muslim. There India faces a bloody insurgency and a runaway mass movement for secession that is joined even by local police and civil servants. New Delhi accuses Pakistan...
Whatever the full extent of Islamabad's involvement, it is clear that members of rebel groups like the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front cross the border from India, sometimes under covering fire from Pakistani troops, buy weapons in Pakistan's open arms markets, seek military training with the mujahedin in Afghanistan and return to Kashmir to fight on. India, doing its best to seal off the uprising, has increased its paramilitary forces in the region from...