Word: kashmiri
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...India's wanted-terrorist list, but Pakistan brought no charges against Abdul Rauf. Musharraf did vow to keep Masood under house arrest, but staff members at his ornate mansion in Bahawalpur say he is free to travel, give incendiary sermons against the U.S. and collect donations for the Kashmiri insurgency...
...Pakistani intelligence officer concedes the possibility that "maverick elements" among the Kashmiri militant groups?acting without Islamabad's support?might have been involved. And Umar wasn't coy about his willingness to use outside help, saying that "Whatever support we need, we ask and they give us." A Dubai-based Islamic militant leader even suggests that SIMI is part of a loose terror alliance that includes the Pakistani Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammmad, as well as Palestinian and other Middle Eastern groups. He says operatives have named themselves Ikhwan (brothers) and are sworn to avenge atrocities or injustices...
...Rehman, a Taliban supporter and chief of Pakistan's fundamentalist Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, was on a goodwill visit to India at the time of the attacks?and lost no time in condemning them. He added that he would encourage both governments to hold peace talks, and called all Kashmiri militants to "cease their operations." Even Zafar Akbar, a senior commander of a breakaway faction of the Kashmiri guerrilla group Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, announced that he and "hundreds of colleagues" were renouncing violence for dialogue...
...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...
...dismantled the feared special forces responsible for most of the abuses. In Srinagar, Kashmir's ancient lakeside city, some Muslim elders are encouraged by the words of peace emanating from New Delhi and Islamabad. Abdul Ghani Bhat, chairman of the separatist All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an alliance of 26 Kashmiri separatist parties and groups, said he was "optimistic" about the future. "The boys with guns will have to fall in line," said Bhat. "They will have to listen to reason." For now, the spectacle of India and Pakistan facing off on the cricket field sounds like a welcome turnaround...