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...light up as he recalls his trip to the holy city of Mecca in 1987. Yet, when asked for whom he's likely to vote in the next elections, Ayub says he's leaning toward a candidate many Muslims would strongly disapprove of: Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India's Hindu-nationalist Prime Minister. "It doesn't matter if a man is Hindu or Muslim, it only matters if he gets his work done," says Ayub. "And Atal Bihari has done his work." He points out that Vajpayee, who represents Lucknow in India's Parliament, has broadened the city's roads...
...very much in evidence as it swings into election mode?not by promising to fulfill key items of the Hindu-nationalist agenda, like building the temple in Ayodhya, but by talking economics. Finance Minister Jaswant Singh has announced a $2.7 billion handout to India's middle class by slashing taxes and import duties on foreign travel, cell phones and computers. "We don't want any agenda that is religious or divisive," says Pramod Mahajan, a key electoral strategist for the BJP. "We want to fight on economic, rational issues." The party, says Mahajan, is projecting Vajpayee as the only leader...
...India's secular constitution. Last year, for instance, the government offered no support to Hindu volunteers who marched to Ayodhya to demand that the temple be built at the disputed site. Key elements of the BJP's right-wing support base, like the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu-nationalist volunteer group, "feel that Vajpayee has done precious little to advance the Hindu agenda," says Harish Khare, a journalist at the Indian newspaper the Hindu and an expert on relations between the BJP and the RSS. Ram Madhav, an RSS spokesman, acknowledges some points of friction between his organization...
...history of Indo-Pak negotiations is a chronicle of failed diplomacy, particularly when it comes to Kashmir. Many diverse interest groups have a stake in what happens in the territory, and emotion often shunts reason aside. In India, following recent state-election victories by his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, Vajpayee is riding high, but he might have to face down party hard-liners who see the talks as a concession to Pakistan. In Pakistan, the ?lite supports Musharraf's moves, but it's a harder sell with militants, lower-ranking military officers and ordinary Kashmiris...
PEARL S. BUCK, writing about the wife of the former Nationalist Chinese leader in LIFE magazine...