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...Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and Kashmir's Islamic guerrillas. Sajjad, who succeeds his father in Kashmir's most powerful separatist alliance, even vocally wondered whether his father's allies were involved: men who were standing alongside him minutes before he was shot. Lone had been evolving into that Kashmiri rarity: a man pushing for peace. Nearly everyone agrees that's why he died...
...Kashmir is the locus of that terrible peril because, for most of the players, continuing conflict works. It works for the militants, who have found an escape from grinding poverty in the gun and the cash and prestige it attracts. That's true of both the indigenous Kashmiri militants and the "guest mujahedin" who come in from Pakistan, veterans of ISI-run training camps in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and former Taliban-ruled territory in Afghanistan, who subscribe to the same ideal of waging a purifying jihad...
...Pakistani security establishment that is his power base. Pakistan's intelligence service and military had nurtured the Taliban, helped it win power and fight off its enemies. The camps run by al-Qaeda had also been used, with the connivance of Pakistani intelligence officers, to train Pakistani and Kashmiri militants for the "jihad" in Kashmir. Letting go was not easy, and Musharraf was forced to purge the top ranks of his military and intelligence services of Taliban sympathizers in order to head off any signs of mutiny...
...best thing that could have happened to a young Kashmiri in the 1990s. Ten years later, Khalid has a master's in business administration from Ohio University and is planning to go back to the U.S. for an additional degree, this one in finance. His friends who stayed behind to study medicine or law don't have a hope of practicing their professions: there are no jobs in Kashmir. Of his ten closest schoolmates, four joined the militancy?at least one died in action?and others left town. When Khalid returns for holidays, he finds Kashmir stiflingly oppressive. Last month...
...Kashmiris are a people in-between, stuck in the vise of a vicious, intractable geopolitical mess, and even when they leave, their fate sometimes follows. Syed Shahnaaz Qadiri decided to move out of Kashmir four years ago. His choice was to go to another state, where the school years start and end on time and students aren't afraid to walk to class. But Qadiri is a Kashmiri Muslim. He chose a college near Ahmadabad, the main city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Two months ago, a mob of Muslims torched a train carriage near Ahmadabad, killing...