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...will not be won by military means alone. If Obama intends to solve the problems of Afghanistan, he would best take a page from his first major foreign policy paper, penned in July 2007. "I will encourage dialogue between Pakistan and India to work toward resolving their dispute over Kashmir," he wrote in Foreign Policy magazine, focusing on long-standing tensions over the contested territory that has led to two wars between the nuclear-armed nations. Peace between Pakistan and India will achieve far more for Afghanistan - and the war on terror - than unlimited troops and an open bank account...
...seminaries, to counter Indian influence in the rival Northern Alliance. When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1994, Pakistan was one of only three nations to recognize their government. The Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), Pakistan's clandestine services, then sent militants hardened in the Soviet war to Indian-administered Kashmir in order to wage a low-level insurgency. They used the Afghan mountains as training grounds and looked the other way when Osama bin Laden made the country a base for his terrorist network. Many Kashmiri militants were trained in his camps as part of the global jihad. As long...
...public's interest - and U.S. involvement there - is dwindling almost by the day. Obama's bumper-sticker plan for Afghanistan - more troops to catch bin Laden - is being swallowed up in a befuddling tangle of intractable issues, ranging from the Afghan heroin trade to the instability of Kashmir. Foreign policy breeds surprises in American Presidents: Nixon went to China; Reagan proposed nuclear disarmament; Bush changed from "humble" to imperial in a single morning. Compounding the unpredictability is the excitement Obama's candidacy has stirred in parts of the world. Will the novelty of a multiracial President with a Kenyan name...
...first driver to arrive on the Pakistani side of the once princely state sees it. "I'm very happy. I cannot express my joy," says Taslim Arif, whose pickup truck is carrying fruit and spices. "It's good to be in our homeland, to be among my brothers. If Kashmir stays with India, it will be very bad. We need to be free...
...lives - feelings are still strong. When Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari, who has been keen to develop stronger ties with Pakistan's neighbours, recently told an interviewer that India had "never been a threat" to Pakistan and labeled as "terrorists" the Islamist militants who had fought India in Kashmir with the backing of the Pakistani military, there was outrage in Pakistan and among Kashmiris on the Indian side of the Line of Control...