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...Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani's threatened "hot pursuit" policy in Kashmir, which would have involved crossing the Line of Control and striking insurgents in Pakistani territory. Usurping control over Kashmir, he launched Operation Break Ice, through which India made secret overtures to the Hurriyat leaders in Srinagar and Kashmiri insurgents inside India and Pakistan, often through contacts in the Middle East. Mishra insisted that intelligence agencies brief him directly on all operations in Kashmir. He sidelined Kashmir's top elected official, Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, a figure whose political power rests more on his late father Sheikh Abdullah...
...massacre this week of 90 Indian pilgrims in Kashmir may prove to be more of a headache for Pakistan's General Parvez Musharraf than for India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. Tuesday's killings are believed to be the work of Kashmiri separatist guerrillas aiming to preempt historic peace talks between the largest separatist organization, Hizbul Mujahideen, and the Indian government. Pakistan hosts and sponsors all of the separatist groups fighting to end Indian rule in the disputed, predominantly Muslim territory and unite with Pakistan. But General Musharraf, under pressure from the West to ease tensions with India...
...Pakistan, on the other hand, is an immediate problem area. It plays host to at least one group designated a terrorist organization by the State Department (the Kashmiri Harkat al Mujahedeen, implicated in last December's Indian Airlines hijacking) and has refused to close the organization down despite pressure from Washington. But adding Pakistan to the list would mean closing the door on an already unstable nuclear power, and that remains an unlikely scenario. While castigating its record on terrorism, State Department counterterrorism coordinator Michael A. Sheehan made clear that Pakistan "is a friendly state that is trying to tackle...
...Afghanistan, first to Uzbekistan and then to Moscow. There's an almost self-conscious element of irony in the hijackers' original demand for the release of a key Afghan opposition leader. The Taliban had, only weeks ago, played a questionable role in resolving the Indian Airlines hijacking, in which Kashmiri militants had demanded that India release one of their leaders. But it's an irony to which the Taliban - hosts of Osama bin Laden - appears oblivious, as it denounces terrorism and steadfastly refuses to negotiate. While in the Christmastime hijacking, the Taliban insisted on a negotiated end to the crisis...
...Judging by their demand, the hijackers appear to be affiliated with the anti-Taliban opposition, which comprises diverse ethnic minorities and forces loyal to the previous government overthrown by the Taliban in 1996. They would, no doubt, have been inspired by the recent success of the Kashmiri separatists who managed through hijacking the Indian Airlines plane to secure the release of their imprisoned leader - a success that was to some degree abetted by the Taliban...