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...Singh's caution reflects the subcontinent's history of Hindu-Muslim violence. Hindu-majority India and Muslim Pakistan were born in the sectarian bloodbath of partition, and three wars the the Kashmir insurgency have kept relations between the communities strained. Just four years ago, the death of 59 Hindus in a burning railway carriage-at the time thought to have been set alight by a mob of Muslims, but now ruled an accident-sparked an anti-Islamic pogrom across the western state of Gujarat in which 2,000 more Muslims died. And yet, 24 hours after the Varanasi bombings...
...Administration. The jihadist element has long been nurtured by the Pakistani security establishment, which cultivated it during the anti-Soviet campaign in Afghanistan in the 1980s (later helping the Taliban to seize power) and used it also to wage a proxy war against India in the disputed territory of Kashmir. Two decades after the onset of the Afghan jihad, radical Islamists are an established feature of Pakistani society, and increasingly difficult for the authorities to contain...
...major issue that is not likely to get much attention is India?s decades-old conflict with Pakistan over the Indian province of Kashmir. In Washington this week, India?s Ambassador to the United States, Ronen Sen, repeated the country?s longstanding position that it doesn?t want third-party intervention in its dispute with Pakistan over the province...
...classical music and he makes sure that everyone is welcome. Haimovitz’s approach to his career has been equally unorthodox—he opens his newest album, “Goulash,” with an electrifying adaptation of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir,” then launches into Hungarian composer Béla Bartók’s Romanian folk dances. Haimovitz will perform Friday at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre with special guest UCCELLO, an ensemble he formed with three of his cello students at McGill University. Eclecticism defines Haimovitz?...
...three main Kashmir militant groups?Lashkar-e-Toiba, Hizbul Muja-heddin and Jaish-e-Mohammad?have also used the earthquake to stage a comeback there. Ex-guerrillas now deploy their motorized rubber boats, on which they had trained for commando maneuvers, to ferry passengers across the Neelum River where bridges have collapsed. Immediately after the quake, militants were first on the scene in many villages, getting there far quicker than the Pakistani army, and they applied their expertise in first aid to save injured people pulled from fallen buildings. Their knowledge of the saw-backed ranges along the Line...