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...profile example of the resilience of Pakistani extremism. The embarrassment for Musharraf in that case is compounded by the fact that Omar Saeed Sheikh, the prime suspect who is now in police custody, is a British-born convicted kidnapper who moved to Musharraf's Pakistan early in 2000 after Kashmiri hijackers forced his release from an Indian prison...
...hard to find decent work in a war zone. Just ask Ilyas, 28, a Kashmiri, father of five and a guide by profession. Ilyas works for Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence. His job is to smuggle jihadis and their munitions into India's portion of Kashmir. If he survives the bullets, land mines and mortars that greet him in the freezing no-man's-land between the two countries, the ISI pays him $334 per trip. If not, his family gets his last paycheck. "Every time I leave home," says Ilyas, "my wife and I say goodbye...
...success of that venture inspired Pakistan's military leaders to start helping insurgents fighting Indian rule in Kashmir, in hopes of equally spectacular dividends. The ISI even has a wing devoted to supporting the Kashmir insurgency. The Pakistani military initially trained indigenous Kashmiri militants, but in 1992--after a brutal Indian crackdown almost snuffed the separatist movement--it began funneling foreign jihadis to Kashmir, expecting their zeal would revive the conflict...
...well on the jihadi front. The terrorism espoused by several militant groups has effectively dirtied a cause even moderate Pakistanis consider sacred. Indigenous Kashmiri militants, for their part, complain privately that Pakistan has hijacked their movement by throwing into the mix extremists alien to their moderate culture. Indeed, the two groups India accuses of masterminding the bombing of its Parliament are dominated by non-Kashmiri zealots, many of them veterans of the Afghan-Soviet...
...Kashmir separatist groups, Lashkar-e-Tayyab and Jaish-e-Mohammed. India accused the Islamic rebel groups of responsibility for the attack and demanded that Pakistan shut them down. After both countries began massing troops along the border, Musharraf ordered his military intelligence agency to cut off the Kashmiri insurgents' financial support. Since winning independence from Britain in 1947 India and Pakistan have fought three wars, two of them over Kashmir...