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...being consulted, albeit unofficially. In a bid to get peace talks under way, India has said that it is ready to let some of the self-appointed political leaders of the separatist cause known as the All Parties Hurriyat Conference travel to Pakistan to meet with militant leaders and Pakistani officials...
...Principal Secretary and his National Security chief. Rivals describe him as the second-most powerful man in India. In 1999, Mishra overturned Indian Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani's threatened "hot pursuit" policy in Kashmir, which would have involved crossing the Line of Control and striking insurgents in Pakistani territory. Usurping control over Kashmir, he launched Operation Break Ice, through which India made secret overtures to the Hurriyat leaders in Srinagar and Kashmiri insurgents inside India and Pakistan, often through contacts in the Middle East. Mishra insisted that intelligence agencies brief him directly on all operations in Kashmir. He sidelined...
...missile. India attributed the timing of the test - just before Republic Day, its biggest national holiday - to "technical" factors. Pakistan called the move "prejudicial to the pursuit of stability in our region," which has been on a war footing since the December attack on India's Parliament, blamed on Pakistani militants. As troops traded shots in Kashmir, four policemen were killed at a U.S. cultural center in Calcutta and a bomb exploded near the British High Commission in Islamabad...
...need everyone's window down so I can hear gunshots, and in case I need to return fire," announces Officer Kamal Ahmad, 26, a Spanish-speaking, California-born Pakistani American in his sixth year with the L.A. County sheriff's department. During five hours with Ahmad and an L.A.P.D. officer on another ride, Irwin Hentschel will be in on a stolen-car pursuit, see drug dealers scatter like pigeons, hear the story of a transvestite hooker, get an education on drugs and guns and how they rule all manner of life, and be pasted to the backrest when shots ring...
...list goes on and on. Besides Mahuad, other internationally infamous Harvard alums include former kleptocrats such as Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and Mexican President Carlos Salinas, as well as strongmen like one-time IOP fellow and Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew. Bhutto, widely viewed in Pakistan as hopelessly corrupt, found an enthusiastic audience at the IOP after losing power...