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...Muhammad's leader, warrior-cleric Maulana Masood Azhar. When Azhar was released from an Indian jail in a prisoner exchange in December 2000, he was permitted to stage a huge rally in Karachi attended by gun-toting followers. In 2001 Musharraf even tried unsuccessfully to persuade the various Kashmiri guerrilla groups to unite under Azhar...
...Muhammad's leader, warrior-cleric Maulana Masood Azhar. When Azhar was released from an Indian jail in a prisoner exchange in December 2000, he was permitted to stage a huge rally in Karachi attended by gun-toting followers. In 2001 Musharraf even tried unsuccessfully to persuade the various Kashmiri guerrilla groups to unite under Azhar...
...services and dismissed as harmless in April 2002. Like many Muslim extremists, Jamil, according to his relatives in Rawalakot, viewed Musharraf as too pro-Western. Militants complain that Musharraf betrayed the Taliban and, given his peace overtures to India in early January, they now accuse him of selling out Kashmiri Muslims too. Jamil's rants against the U.S. and Musharraf were so incessant that his family kicked him out, neighbors say. But was Jamil the ringleader of the Dec. 25 plot? "Of course not," scoffs Interior Minister Hayat. "The ringleaders never blow themselves up. They get minions to do that...
...whether a land so soaked in blood and suffering can ever move beyond the past, regardless of what is decided in New Delhi or Islamabad. Between 35,000 people (India's figure) and 70,000 (Pakistan's figure) have died in the violence since 1989, largely in the Kashmiri valley. Moderate Kashmiris warn that the past few years in the valley have seen a rapid spread of the hard-line Islamic faith of Wahhabism?the chosen creed of Osama bin Laden, among others?in an area previously dominated by the moderate Sufi tradition. Yasin Malik, 38, a former militant commander...
...India and Pakistan must rise above the rigidity of past demands (like the big nonstarter?a Kashmir plebiscite) and look for an option that is honorable, acceptable and sustainable. It must satisfy the Kashmiri need for honor; it must be acceptable to New Delhi; and unless Pakistan signs on, no agreement can be sustained. If they can achieve all that, the next war between India and Pakistan will be fought in March and April, a war guaranteed to drive millions of people delirious: the upcoming cricket Test matches. That's the only kind of war we want...