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...Srinagar, beside Kashmir's famed Dal Lake, thousands of pilgrims were gathering for last week's festival of Shaab-e-Baraat when the sorrowful news crackled from houseboat to houseboat, from hut to hut. The guard on duty at Hazrat Bal (literally Majestic Place) had left his post long enough for thieves to saw out the strongroom locks, smash the cabinet and make their getaway. The prophet's hair was gone...
...Kashmiri government offered a princely reward-$21,000 outright plus a $105 lifetime annual pension-to anyone who "traces or helps in tracing" the relic. From New Delhi came two senior Indian police officials to help authorities in Srinagar, which is in the Indian-held half of disputed Kashmir. In Pakistan, India's Prime Minister Nehru was blamed as "the real thief," though the press also hinted that the "satanic" plot might have been "conceived in the so-called intellectual cells in a faraway Western capital," meaning Washington. Indians were equally sure that the affair was a Pakistani scheme...
...Kashmir dispute is even less likely to be resolved than the China border problem, he said. "There are many unsettled problems in this world and this is one of them." After a 15 year de facto partition of the country among India, Pakistan, and China, in the last few months "negotiators have finally agreed that the solution is no longer a plebiscite but is instead a formal partition of Kashmir," Nehru said. The situation now appears to be permanently deadlocked, however, over where the partition would be drawn...
...season, it is extremely unlikely that the Indians will ever disturb China in Ladakh. Last year's fighting showed India the dangers of opposing China militarily. Before risking military action, she would have to compose her quarrel with Pakistan, a procedure which would probably cost her more territory in Kashmir than she would gain in Ladakh...
...American guest that Pakistan is not about to back down on the new air agreement it had just signed with China. Pakistan underscored its attitude toward Peking by announcing an agreement to survey the border between China's Sinkiang region and the Pakistan-controlled portion of Kashmir...