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Pakistani editors invited to break the Ramadan fast last week with President Pervez Musharraf were treated to palm dates, curried pastries and some unexpected news?a radical new approach to Pakistan's bitter, 57-year-old dispute with India over Kashmir...
...explained, neither side would budge. Pakistan has long insisted on a plebiscite among Kashmiris to determine whether the people of the troubled Himalayan region should be part of India or Pakistan. For just as long, India has refused to hold such a referendum. New Delhi is happy to keep Kashmir as it is, carved along the Line of Control, which is defended on either side by large armies. This, according to Musharraf, is equally unpalatable for Pakistan. With both countries not yielding, Musharraf said, the stalemate could drag on "for another 100 years...
...Whole New Line Pakistani editors invited to break the Ramadan fast last week with President Pervez Musharraf were treated to palm dates, curried pastries - and a radical new approach to Pakistan's bitter, 57-year-old dispute with India over Kashmir. Pakistan has long insisted on a plebiscite among Kashmiris to determine whether the people of the troubled Himalayan region should be part of India or Pakistan. For just as long, India has refused to hold such a referendum...
...break the gridlock, Musharraf proposed that Kashmir be divided up into seven regions based on geography and ethnicity - and not necessarily on religion. (Muslims are in a majority in most parts of Kashmir.) Next, he said, both India and Pakistan would withdraw troops from these mini-regions, one by one. It would then be left up to the Kashmiris, along with New Delhi and Islamabad, to haggle over whether they wanted India and Pakistan to jointly administer the territories or place them under U.N. control. Could it work? Former Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said: "Mapmaking has to stop...
...overstated the role that history has played in the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. After all, Islam has existed in Asia for a long time, yet the problems of fundamentalism are relatively new. A more plausible explanation is that it stems largely from modern grievances such as economic inequality, Afghanistan, Kashmir, and America's wars in Iraq...