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...Aftermath: A Father's Grief As hopes for peace rose between contending nations, nature intervened violently in the life of a Kashmiri family...
...against villages suspected of supporting Islamic militants. Police arrested one suspect. Route to Peace PAKISTAN The government reached agreement with India to launch a bus service on April 7 between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, towns on either side of the cease-fire line dividing the disputed region of Kashmir. But Kashmiri militant groups declared their opposition to the service and threatened to disrupt...
...that a mentally ill Australian woman, Cornelia Rau, had been held for four months at South Australia's remote Baxter detention center after claiming to be an illegal immigrant from Germany. Among Australia's long-term detainees are those who have been denied refugee status; some, like Kashmiri Peter Qasim, who has been held for nearly seven years because India will not accept him without any identification papers, could spend the rest of their lives in detention...
...allied to bin Laden were once clandestinely funded and supported by Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), to wage war in Afghanistan and Indian-controlled Kashmir. (In the case of the Kashmir conflict, Pakistan has always denied giving anything but moral support to the cause of Kashmiri self-determination, but militants who have fought there insist they had support from the military.) And when young Pakistanis were recruited for fighting in either Afghanistan or Kashmir, they were pumped up with the promise of serving in a holy war to free fellow Muslims from Soviet or Indian rule...
...services and dismissed as harmless in April 2002. Like many Muslim extremists, Jamil, according to his relatives in Rawalakot, viewed Musharraf as too pro-Western. Militants complain that Musharraf betrayed the Taliban and, given his peace overtures to India in early January, they now accuse him of selling out Kashmiri Muslims too. Jamil's rants against the U.S. and Musharraf were so incessant that his family kicked him out, neighbors say. But was Jamil the ringleader of the Dec. 25 plot? "Of course not," scoffs Interior Minister Hayat. "The ringleaders never blow themselves up. They get minions to do that...