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...also quite conceivable that a number of the Pakistani militants trained to spread terror across the border will respond to Musharraf's crackdown by launching a campaign of domestic terrorism against Musharraf's own regime and its secularist supporters. Or, if they were to take their cue from the radical Islamist opposition to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, they might refrain from directly targeting the Pakistani authorities but instead launch dramatic terror strikes inside India, hoping to provoke a full-blown...
...border demanding action against the perpetrators of recent terror strikes in New Delhi and Srinagar. Even inside Pakistan, the militant groups cultivated by the intelligence services to provide an army of jihadis for Kashmir had evolved into uncontrollable armed groups that fomented violence against Shiite Muslims, Christians and other Pakistani minorities. As General Musharraf noted in his speech last Saturday, they have come to represent a threat to Pakistan's own internal stability and even its long-term survival. "Violence and terrorism have been going on for years and we are weary and sick of this Kalashnikov culture," Musharraf warned...
...change is in the air. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has already replaced ISI chief Lieut. General Mahmood Ahmad, a Taliban sympathizer, with a progressive moderate, Lieut. General Ehsan ul-Haq, and sidelined another general who helped shape Pakistan's recent Kashmir policy. Last week, under mounting pressure from the U.S., Pakistan's government promised to shut down the activities of foreign extremists in Kashmir. Ilyas, it seems, may soon have to find some other way to feed his family...
...wasn't Azhar's first time in a Pakistani cell. The onetime religion teacher has been in and out of detention since he returned to his native land after India released him. Within weeks, he was in Karachi delivering fanatical speeches and exhorting several thousand armed supporters to destroy India and the U.S. Azhar joined hands with a hard-line Sunni sectarian group and broke away from Harkat-ul-Mujahideen to found the even more fanatical Jaish-e-Muhammad. His new group was the first to favor suicide attacks in India. It has been responsible for grenade and car-bomb...
...Pakistani officials say it's too soon to know whether the two militant leaders will face trial or eventually be released. Either way, it's doubtful that Pakistan--or India--has heard the last of them...