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Plain cussedness has often torpedoed talks between India and Pakistan, especially over Kashmir. In 1999, Pakistan's generals, led by Pervez Musharraf, sabotaged the so-called Lahore accord because they felt the Army had been left out of the loop. The 50-day battle they launched on Kashmir's Line of Control destroyed any chance that agreement might have had of succeeding. Two years later, when President Musharraf journeyed to Agra for a summit with Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the negotiations broke down because the Indians refused to accept the classification of Kashmir as a "disputed territory...
...know that any hope of peace talks could easily be sabotaged by a violent incident like the March 24 massacre of 24 Kashmiri Hindus by unidentified gunmen. Indeed, convincing the militants to hand over their Kalashnikovs is the key to peace in Kashmir?and it may prove impossible. Says Pervez Hoodbhoy, a South Asia expert at the Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad: "There are extremists who want to torpedo these negotiations...
...Publicly, at least, Pakistan is trying to distance itself from jihadis like Saad. Last week, Armitage said that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf gave him "absolute assurance that there was nothing happening" across the Line of Control and that guerrilla camps in Pakistan's Kashmir territory either no longer existed or "would be gone tomorrow." If Pakistan does indeed seal off the Kashmir border, as the U.S. is insisting, some militant groups will wither, starved of Islamabad's covert training, arms and cash. Already in Muzaffarabad, the main city in Pakistan's side of Kashmir, unemployed jihadis are scraping through...
...Early last week, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf ordered his foreign office to find out whether Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee might accept a phone call from Islamabad. The diplomats said he would. Musharraf told Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali to start dialing. During a brief conversation, Jamali, reading from prepared notes, agreed with Vajpayee's earlier assertion that the countries should talk and formally invited him to Pakistan. On Friday, Vajpayee responded by announcing that India would restore full diplomatic relations and air links with Pakistan. The move re-opened the door that Delhi had slammed shut...
...likely to sharpen the agency's focus on a close U.S. ally - Pakistan. A senior U.S. official tells TIME that the CIA is convinced that the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan, played a key role in the development of North Korea's arsenal. Although President Pervez Musharraf stripped Khan, 67, from his post under intense U.S pressure two years ago, his company, A.Q. Khan Research Laboratories, has free-lanced its services around the world with impunity. The State Department in March finally decided it had had enough and slapped sanctions on Khan's company...