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What can the U.S. do to help? Washington can try to push both sides for some movement on Kashmir, the issue on which their diplomatic talks have repeatedly faltered. Indian foreign policy experts say the U.S., which has supplied the Pakistani military with billions of dollars since 2001, may have the leverage to persuade the generals to stop shielding militant groups like Lashkar...
...Srinagar, many Kashmiris say that any further talks should include a seat at the negotiating table for them. India has been reluctant to allow the separatists a voice in the talks. "We've seen meetings between the Indian and Pakistani Foreign Secretaries, but things won't change much in Kashmir unless Kashmiris have a say in the talks," says Basharat Peer, author of a new memoir about growing up during the insurgency. "We are a people desperate to be heard...
...first blood was spilled at 9:30pm. An hour later, the world realized that Mumbai was under a coordinated terrorist attack that was threatening to lay siege to India’s financial capital. As a Pakistani, I watched in horror as the all-to-familiar images of carnage streamed over the television. I was transported back to September 20, when a suicide bomber at Islamabad’s Marriott hotel blew himself up, claiming the lives of 53 people, including two Americans and the Czech ambassador. The crying child in Mumbai who had lost his parents wrenched my heart...
...Recent bellicose gestures by the Indian government and media remind me of the atmosphere after a 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament. In the days following the attack, over 400,000 Indian and Pakistani troops were amassed on the volatile border . Level-headed diplomacy resulted in a de-escalation of this situation, and set the two countries on several years of peace talks. These negotiations have come a long way, to the extent where Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari recently told a conference in India that he foresaw a future where Indians and Pakistanis could cross...
...Pakistan has repeatedly offered its fullest cooperation in the current investigation to bring the perpetrators to justice. The people of Pakistan stand in solidarity with their Indian neighbors. After all, it is perhaps the Pakistanis who understand the most what India is going through currently. Ironically, both countries were struck by local sectarian violence in the past few days, as bombs took several dozen lives in the Pakistani cities of Swat, Peshawar and Karachi, and in the Indian state of Assam. The two nations have much in common: they face domestic and international terrorists, separatist movements, and are both under...