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That's exactly what happened in October 2000 in the southern port of Aden, when an al-Qaeda suicide squad drove a boat laden with explosives into the destroyer U.S.S. Cole, killing 17 American sailors. Earlier this month, Pakistani officials arrested Ramzi Binalshibh, an al-Qaeda operative from Yemen who U.S. investigators believe helped plan the Sept. 11 attacks. U.S. officials also say al-Qaeda used Yemen's honey trade as a cover to raise cash and smuggle weapons...
...Ironically, the Pakistani part of Kashmir remains imprisoned in a dictatorship, as does the rest of Pakistan. This makes a free vote on the other side of the border all the more galling to Pakistan's military regime, whose raison d'etre is either the bogey of war with India or the dream of absorbing Kashmir into Pakistan. If the threat is proved unreal, and the dream a mirage, Pakistan's rulers will have lost their justification for a permanent coup. There is more at stake in Kashmir than Kashmir...
...mostly Muslim, died in sectarian rioting in February and March. The Indian army sent 3,000 troops to Gujarat to keep the peace. Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishnan Advani visited the temple and blamed Pakistan for the attack. PAKISTAN Grudge Match? In a gangland-style execution, gunmen killed seven Pakistani Christians and left one man injured at the offices of a charity in the commercial capital Karachi. The unidentified men entered the Institute for Peace and Justice, tied and gagged their victims, and then shot them in the head. "I don't believe this was a terrorist attack," said Simeon...
...Here in the R. Premadasa Stadium, in front of 25,000 people, Pakistan is being taught a lesson in how to play one-day cricket by the region's afterthought: Sri Lanka. Rashud, a 35-year-old from the Pakistani city of Peshawar, is unperturbed. Cricket, it seems, has a way of breaking down barriers and appealing to fans' more civilized instincts. "Winning or losing does not matter," he says. "Once cricket is in the blood, it's there for life and there is no way you can get it out of your system...
...dispute over Kashmir. But even Kashmir hasn't divided the players. While India and Pakistan were trading verbal missiles at the United Nations assembly in New York earlier this month, the two countries' most popular public figures?India's Sachin Tendulkar, arguably the world's greatest cricketer, and Pakistani captain Waqar Younis?were rekindling an old friendship in the lobby of the teams' hotel in Colombo. "They are the best of friends," says Indian team manager K.M. Ramprasad. "Cricket unites them. It makes them see each other as human beings...