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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...newly hopeful Kashmir, there will now be a chief minister who does not belong to the Abdullah clan. Among the prime candidates is Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, a former Congress Party bigwig who formed his own People's Democratic Party in 1999. His daughter Mehbooba, 42, made the party a force by tirelessly campaigning for the victims of Kashmir's violence and?insisting that the decades-long impasse can't continue. "We don't have anAladdin's lamp," she told Time, "but we will provide a healing touch." Her fervor registered with Kashmir's voters, as even Omar Abdullah admits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ballots Over Bullets | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...time is right for its own crackdown. In Kashmir, it is: even Kashmiri militants, who desire independence from India, agree that their guest mujahedin are as nasty as they are unwelcome. "They are trying to Talibanize Kashmir," says activist Mohammed Kaleem. "Their only objective is to destroy India." Mehbooba Mufti, vice president of the pro-India People's Democratic Party, says the jihadis are giving Vajpayee's government exactly the justification it needs: "They always want to keep the Kashmir pot boiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Brink | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

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