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...Saad, a burly Kashmiri in his mid-30s with a closely cropped beard, is one of them. Eyes ablaze, Saad?who prefers not to disclose his full name for security reasons?continues to talk of unending war in Kashmir. These days, however, he's not so sure of high-level support within Pakistan. For an interview at his home in Islamabad, he insists we drive a mazelike route because, he claims, Pakistani intelligence agents, who were once his friends and mentors, are now keeping him under surveillance. Saad says he commands 70 fighters?a fraction...
...Publicly, at least, Pakistan is trying to distance itself from jihadis like Saad. Last week, Armitage said that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf gave him "absolute assurance that there was nothing happening" across the Line of Control and that guerrilla camps in Pakistan's Kashmir territory either no longer existed or "would be gone tomorrow." If Pakistan does indeed seal off the Kashmir border, as the U.S. is insisting, some militant groups will wither, starved of Islamabad's covert training, arms and cash. Already in Muzaffarabad, the main city in Pakistan's side of Kashmir, unemployed jihadis are scraping through...
...view is shared by many Pakistani military officers: backing the Kashmiri militants, whose ranks are swelled with Pakistani recruits itching for a holy war against the Hindus, has been a low-risk and cheap way to tie up hundreds of thousands of Indian troops in the freezing mountains of Kashmir. But some Pakistani intellectuals are starting to argue another line: that after 14 years of guerrilla fighting and more than 30,000 deaths in Kashmir, the Indians are not backing down. "You can't keep following this path if it leads nowhere," Hoodbhoy says. This opinion is gaining currency among...
...Viewpoint: A Kashmir Solution...
...Still, Musharraf is halfway there. After Sept. 11, he earned kudos from Washington for helping catch more than 450 al-Qaeda suspects and trying to slow the flow of holy warriors into Indian-held Kashmir. Although the number of militants crossing into Kashmir dipped slightly, India now claims that Pakistani intelligence once again has opened the tap, sending perhaps hundreds of fighters across every month and furnishing them with guns, rocket-propelled grenades, radios and daily intelligence on where Indian troops are patrolling. For the Bush Administration, this presents a credibility gap. On a visit to Washington last week, General...