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...break out in a number of global hot spots, as if world leaders had made a collective New Year's resolution for harmony. India and Pakistan - who not so long ago were at the nuclear brink over Kashmir - met for warm talks in Islamabad and promised to keep talking. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared the commitment to talk a victory "for all those peace-loving people of the world." Syria and Turkey also seem to have gotten over long-standing territorial feuds: last week, Bashar Assad became the first Syrian leader ever to visit Turkey, and leaders appear more concerned...
...sure-footed in the gloom, feeling his way around the shelter with practiced confidence. When he reaches the inner bunker, Khan pulls a blanket around his shoulders and peers out of a small window. It is from here that, since 1989, he has watched thousands of Indian and Pakistani artillery shells describe golden arcs as they split the air of the valley below. "I suppose we were lucky," he says, of surviving 14 years of incoming Pakistani fire. "Our crops spoiled, and our goats and cattle starved because we were too scared to go out, but nobody died...
...Like thousands of Kashmiris, Khan found himself living on the front line of what would become Asia's most bitter conflict when the U.N. drew a Line of Control through Kashmir in 1949, dividing the disputed Himalayan region into Indian and Pakistani parts. Because the Line of Control also split the area around Khan's village of Uroosa, he was cut off from all but his most immediate family. The divide deepened in 1989, when separatist rebels, incensed at India's heavy-handed rule of its only Muslim-majority state, began an uprising in the meadows of the Kashmir valley...
...part, Khan hasn't seen or spoken to his Pakistani relatives since he was eight. But a cease-fire announced in November, and an agreement last week by India and Pakistan to begin peace talks in February, have set him dreaming of a reunion. "It will be a new beginning," says Khan. "My family will meet once more, and life will start in our valley again." In his isolation, cut off in a war zone that until last month the Indian army kept off-limits to all but a few farmers, Khan cannot know that his relatives, whom TIME...
...constitution strengthen the role of the President. Still, the U.S. can't count on Musharraf escaping future attacks. In the event of his death, the law prescribes that he be succeeded by Senate chairman Mohammad Mian Soomro until an election is held. But given its dominant role in Pakistani politics, the military could well seize power. That might keep Pakistan's nuclear weapons safe; the program has always been controlled by the generals, even during civilian governments. Bush told reporters on New Year's Day he believed Pakistan's nuclear arsenal was secure. "Obviously, terrorists are after [Musharraf...