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Person of the Week ON THE GROUND With the subcontinent on edge and Afghanistan struggling, the U.S. sends in its top diplomat, Secretary of State Colin Powell, who soothed in Delhi and Islamabad and talked moola in Kabul, promising "significant" aid?though less than the $22 billion Afghanistan wants
Prior to its installation in Afghanistan, al-Qaeda had several nests in various countries, including Pakistan. President Pervez Musharraf's problems in the wake of the attack on the Indian Parliament are caused by the inherent contradictions in his need to be seen as a champion of Islam by the...
At the same time, the U.S. war against terrorism has actually helped set the stage for a new conflagration on the subcontinent. The proximate cause of the current tensions was the outrageous Dec. 13 attack on the Indian Parliament complex in New Delhi by suspected Muslim rebels who India claims...
Yet Vajpayee and Musharraf ought to be able to do business together. Both are the moderate face of their hard-line constituencies and liberals in their private lives. Together, they control two of the world's seven declared nuclear arsenals. And each came to power proclaiming the same grand ambition...
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...