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...media’s warmongering ways so risky. The ideal of true journalistic objectivity, fact firmly squared off from value judgments, may be just that—idealistic. But newspaper readers in India and elsewhere deserve an account of the attacks that hasn’t already settled on Pakistan??s complicit “intransigence.” Anything more opinionated should be left to the editorialists.These considerations aren’t just nitpicking. In the immediate wake of the attacks in Mumbai, the first reaction was grief, accompanied by the pride of a nation that would...
...target should be Al Qaeda, but they are now of course based inside Pakistan. Only the government of Pakistan is positioned to deal them a mortal blow, and accomplishing that goal should be your priority, but your influence in Pakistan will decline if you escalate the fighting in Afghanistan. Pakistan??s army and its intelligence services suspect the United States of working in Afghanistan with India to take away Pakistan??s means to defend itself in depth, should there be another Indo-Pak war (the chances of which have just increased, following the latest attack launched...
...following the attack, over 400,000 Indian and Pakistani troops were amassed on the volatile border . Level-headed diplomacy resulted in a de-escalation of this situation, and set the two countries on several years of peace talks. These negotiations have come a long way, to the extent where Pakistan??s President Asif Ali Zardari recently told a conference in India that he foresaw a future where Indians and Pakistanis could cross the border with a simple identification card. Neogtiations regarding three new trade routes, which promised to bring millions of dollars in commerce to each country, looked...
...where do we go from here? Pakistan must continue to extend its full cooperation to the Mumbai investigation, and make it clear that its soil cannot be a training ground and safe haven for terrorists. Pakistan??s recent raid and arrests at a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba training camp gives us reason to take heart. India must exercise extreme caution and constraint in its response and show a willingness to work with the Pakistani government during these troubled times. Diplomatic intimidation and flexing of military muscle will serve no productive end. Furthermore, Delhi must collaborate and provide...
Yesterday morning, the leaders of India’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, called for a United Nations mandate “to destroy the edifice of terrorism in Pakistan?? through intervention. There were cries of popular support. Sound familiar? It echoes the rhetoric of 9/11, but this time such bombast will not be successful...