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Though Musharraf and Vajpayee managed a handshake at a South Asian summit last weekend in Nepal, they are hardly speaking, even by long distance. So far, the historic dynamics of the India-Pakistan relationship have trumped the peaceful ambitions of these two, not the other way round. But as they work to avert a new war on the subcontinent, both the poet and the general might usefully recall how each has publicly aspired to the higher title of statesman...
KASHMIR Armies Mass Along a Disputed Border Though they shook hands in nepal at the South Asia summit, the leaders of India and Pakistan showed few signs of reducing the mutual tension that began with a Dec. 13 suicide attack on the New Delhi Parliament. The governments of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and President Pervez Musharraf squared off over the activities of two 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...
...other great buildings were erected, such as Santiago Calatrava's winglike art museum in Milwaukee, a celebration of light, beauty and space. Author J.K. Rowling's wizards came to life on the screen and people flocked to theaters for a little levitation. A 15-year-old boy from Nepal climbed the world's highest mountain; a 60-year-old millionaire paid $20 million to hitch a ride into space. Even in a terrible year, clocks continue to tick, the pages of the calendar still turn. Here are some of the memories of 2001 that shouldn't be forgotten...
...NEPAL Red Alert King Gyanendra declared a state of emergency and ordered troops into battle after Maoist guerrillas broke a four-month truce with a series of deadly attacks. The country had previously relied on its under-equipped police force to contain the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), which has been fighting to topple the monarchy since 1996. At least 220 people died in the week?s fighting, which included the rebels? first-ever strike on an army post...
Brown, who took the spring term of his junior year off to live in a refugee camp in Nepal, will work towards a masters in migration and development studies at Oxford...