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...will meet once more, and life will start in our valley again." In his isolation, cut off in a war zone that until last month the Indian army kept off-limits to all but a few farmers, Khan cannot know that his relatives, whom TIME has tracked down, left Kashmir a year ago. At their new home in Rawalpindi, it emerges that the reason for their departure is as bad as any Khan could have imagined. Khan's 21-year-old nephew Mohammad Jaffer Khan says his father?Khan's brother?never got over their separation and died heartbroken...
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...inspired by last week's agreement between India and Pakistan to seek peace. Still, Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf struck a conciliatory pose, and both sides made significant concessions. India gave up its insistence that all jihadi incursions from Pakistan into Indian-administered Kashmir end before any talks could start, and Pakistan vowed its territory would no longer serve as a terrorist base. For some, the portents have never been so good. "You could not have a better configuration of domestic politics in both countries," says Rifaat Hussain of the defense and strategic studies...
...history of Indo-Pak negotiations is a chronicle of failed diplomacy, particularly when it comes to Kashmir. Many diverse interest groups have a stake in what happens in the territory, and emotion often shunts reason aside. In India, following recent state-election victories by his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, Vajpayee is riding high, but he might have to face down party hard-liners who see the talks as a concession to Pakistan. In Pakistan, the ?lite supports Musharraf's moves, but it's a harder sell with militants, lower-ranking military officers and ordinary Kashmiris...
...There are other signs of potential trouble ahead. Former Prime Minister of Pakistani-held Kashmir, Sardar Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan, is concerned that Kashmiris have been excluded from upcoming negotiations, undermining the legitimacy of the talks. "They agreed that Kashmir was a central issue," he says, "but they did not mention the centrality of the Kashmiris in making any decision." And there are questions, too, about Musharraf's reasons for seeking peace. Some observers say that although he had been considering rapprochement with India for some time, his decision to drop support for Kashmiri militancy was cemented by the Christmas...