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...Lanka: Peace at Hand? Kashmir: Election Wreckers...
...Lanka: Peace at Hand? Kashmir: Election Wreckers...
...carried a spare in a plastic shopping bag. "All he said was that he was going to a public rally," recalls Ahmed, who had taken care of Siddique's family ever since the lad's father, a Pakistani artilleryman, was killed by Indian soldiers in a firefight in Kashmir in 1980, when Siddique was just...
...Siddique was not heading to a public rally but to a private war?to join Islamic militants fighting for Kashmir, to kill Indians, perhaps to avenge his father. It was a journey marked by blood and sweat: four months of intensive guerrilla training, crawling through barbed-wire obstacle courses, running up and down peaks, target practice, planting mines, making bombs?and, later, real killing. And it was a journey that would end in tears in Srinagar, summer capital of Indian Kashmir, at the high-security prison of the state's dreaded counterinsurgency special ops division...
...begins voting for a new legislative assembly, Kashmir is reeling from fresh waves of violence. Already, nearly 300 people have been killed, including the state's Law Minister last week. Pakistan has denounced the election process, while New Delhi says Islamabad is encouraging the infiltration of Islamic militants to disrupt the polls. To prove their claim that Pakistanis or guerrillas based in Pakistan are responsible for the bloodshed, Indian authorities in Srinagar allowed Time to meet three recently captured militants: Siddique, along with comrades-in-arms Tariq Mahmood and Hamid Numan Butt...