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...ready to carry the jihad to Kashmir when necessary. That issue is a snarling point for Indians who regularly accuse Pakistan of training, equipping and inserting terrorists into Kashmir. Although Musharraf has in the past denied that Pakistan sponsors militants, it has in fact helped establish training camps for Kashmiri insurrectionists and facilitated their crossing the Line of Control. India fears that 2,000 or more al-Qaeda fighters who have fled Afghanistan are currently in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, waiting to cross the Line of Control to take up jihad inside Indian Kashmir. While plenty of Kashmiris and Pakistani jihadis...
...part, has been pressing Musharraf to make good on a pledge he made on Jan. 12 to curtail the Kashmiri militants and crack down on extremist groups that had been promoting terrorism. As a result, the groups Musharraf banned, which after the January speech merely changed their names and bank-account numbers, went further underground. Whether Musharraf has control over these groups remains doubtful. "Our objective is death to India by a thousand cuts. And we believe Kashmir will break the back of the camel and will result in the disintegration of the whole of India," says a top commander...
...Laden, whose al-Qaeda has aided Kashmiri armed militias, would love India to make the same mistake, for Kashmir to become one more entry in the grim litany of places where Muslims are supposedly oppressed by unbelievers. Then India really will be in trouble (not least with its 130 million strong Muslim minority). To avoid that fate, Delhi needs to do what it has never really done: recognize that Kashmir is a political question that needs a political solution, think hard about what such a solution might be and welcome outside help in finding and implementing it. India is indeed...
...think of Kashmir. And with an average death toll of 13 people a day, it'll be difficult to find room to mention the scenery in my dispatches. But in these fearsome days of violence, terror and nuclear brinkmanship, I take some solace from the notion that when a Kashmiri thinks of peace and beauty, he thinks of home...
...fulminations against Muslim militancy have successfully rid India's newspapers of reports of the excesses of the BJP's hard-line supporters in Gujarat, where more than 1,000 Muslims have been killed in a 10-week religious pogrom. Conflict and crisis also allow India to ignore the average Kashmiri's main complaints: the nagging injustice of Indian rule, rigged elections, rampant official corruption, police torture and murders by soldiers. And with the U.S. enthusiastically prosecuting its war on terror in Afghanistan, New Delhi feels the time is right for its own crackdown. In Kashmir, it is: even Kashmiri militants...