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...elected. Vajpayee takes a bus to Lahore for peace talks with Pakistan's then Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif. They pledge to ease tension, but a few months later Pakistani soldiers and Islamic militants clash with Indian troops in Kashmir. The Pakistanis are under the command of army chief?and future President?Pervez Musharraf...
...President, possibly with insider help, is a situation partly of Musharraf's making. The government in Islamabad has long coddled militant Islamic groups, encouraging them first to help drive the Soviets out of neighboring Afghanistan and later to torment Indian troops in the part of the disputed state of Kashmir that is under Indian control. It was to this latter cause that Jaish-e-Muhammad was devoted. Official tolerance of these groups, and in some cases assistance to them, continued after Musharraf took power in a 1999 coup. The President was especially supportive of Jaish-e-Muhammad's leader, warrior...
...ASIA N. Korea: Atomic Shakedown Kashmir: A Glimmer of Hope SARS: Averting an Outbreak Terror: Targeting Thailand S. Asia: The Road to Peace...
...ASIA N. Korea: Atomic Shakedown Kashmir: A Glimmer of Hope SARS: Averting an Outbreak Terror: Targeting Thailand S. Asia: The Road to Peace...
...attack, but any of a number of local extremist groups could have provided the manpower. Musharraf has invited a new wave of antipathy from radicals by banning some of their organizations and by softening his stance toward India, particularly on the question of the disputed territory of Kashmir. He has declared a unilateral cease-fire along the line dividing Pakistani and Indian forces in Kashmir and has suggested that he may be willing to relent on Pakistan's long-held demand that Kashmir's future be determined by a plebiscite. Pakistani investigators identified one of the Dec. 25 attackers...