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...Delhi says Islamabad is encouraging the infiltration of Islamic militants to disrupt the polls. To prove their claim that Pakistanis or guerrillas based in Pakistan are responsible for the bloodshed, Indian authorities in Srinagar allowed Time to meet three recently captured militants: Siddique, along with comrades-in-arms Tariq Mahmood and Hamid Numan Butt...
...shortly after he was arrested. "This man would shoot us all if he saw a chance to escape," muttered the Indian officer in charge. The prisoners, seated in a dim interrogation cell, said Islamabad would not demand their extradition because it did not acknowledge their presence in Kashmir. Said Mahmood: "We all knew, when we came, that we might not be able to go home...
...Neither Siddique nor Mahmood fit the common profile of hardened militants. Both are from middle-class families and attended regular schools, not the madrasahs that are often breeding grounds for radicals. Siddique seemed a well-adjusted boy who enjoyed playing football and hiking. "We gave him everything," Uncle Ahmed says. Mahmood was even more privileged: studying medicine, practicing as a homeopathic doctor, and marrying a fellow physician...
...both young men began to yearn for jihad. Siddique's cousin Zahid Islam says that while studying at Gujrat Technical College, Siddique would increasingly express concern about the plight of Kashmiris. Mahmood's brother Tahir says he began to hate his job at a clinic, eventually quitting to join Islamic groups. One day, Mahmood asked his family for permission to go to Kashmir. "My father's initial reaction," relates Tahir, a onetime fighter himself, "was neutral?not bad, not good. But later he reckoned (Mahmood) had done the right thing...
...city street orphan for its hero. Nair enjoyed an art-house hit in 1992 with Mississippi Masala, starring Denzel Washington. It was an exuberant, surprising interracial romance about the American South, motels and the Asian expulsion from Uganda. (Got that?) She met her second husband, Ugandan political scientist Mahmood Mamdani, while researching that film and spent nine years living mostly in Africa...