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...While a handful of militants, unwilling to fight on without state protection, have been selling their AK-47s and SUVs in the markets of Pakistani Kashmir, others like Abu Khalid, a veteran of one tour in Indian Kashmir, are vowing to continue. "Jihad is our Islamic duty," he says. "Nobody can stop us, not even Musharraf. If Musharraf stops our food, we will not die of hunger. God will arrange it from somewhere else." In fact, argues Ajai Sahni, of the New Delhi-based Institute for Conflict Management, Musharraf's pledge to end support for the militants could encourage...
...uncertainties dogging Kashmir's peace process, perhaps the biggest is whether a land so soaked in blood and suffering can ever move beyond the past, regardless of what is decided in New Delhi or Islamabad. Between 35,000 people (India's figure) and 70,000 (Pakistan's figure) have died in the violence since 1989, largely in the Kashmiri valley. Moderate Kashmiris warn that the past few years in the valley have seen a rapid spread of the hard-line Islamic faith of Wahhabism?the chosen creed of Osama bin Laden, among others?in an area previously dominated...
...male adult in the entire family of 40. Asked about the coming peace talks, Sheikh cries out: "Why should I care? There's nothing for me in any of this. I lost my husband; I lost my eldest son; what good can any of this possibly do me? Let Kashmir burn...
...free-trade zone by 2006. The reason for the success: India and Pakistan were on board. More proof of something big in the air came a day later, when the two rivals announced that they would resume a "composite dialogue"?a code signifying that they would even discuss Kashmir, the territory that has kept the subcontinent bristling with arms and animus for more than five decades...
...When peace threatens to break out between India and Pakistan, grown men wince?for they have not seen anything like this in their lives. Pakistan launched modern history's longest war in October 1947, when it inspired a jihad to "liberate" Kashmir from its Hindu ruler. The first cease-fire was announced way back in January 1949; the most recent along the world's most dangerous dividing line was called by Pakistan last November...