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...peacekeeping. The idea is that the U.N. would call on ready battalions from armies around the world to step into emerging hot spots. These "surge" troops would be trained to work together and deploy quickly. Tactical units from Sweden, say, would be trained to work side by side with Pakistani logistics officers. Lego blocks for international order--but Legos with teeth. While the U.N. would hold to the rules that permit peacekeepers to fire only in self-defense, the definition of self-defense would be stretched. If troops on the ground saw a left hook coming in, they would...
...elements in his security forces that oppose such a dialogue. Indeed, while Hizbul remains a predominantly Kashmiri organization that is mostly nationalist in character, its rivals, such as Lakshar-e-Toiba (suspected of being behind Tuesday's massacre), Al Badr, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and others are essentially Pakistani organizations, whose members include large number of Punjabis and Afghanis committed to a "jihad" against India. And the fact that they may have some support in Pakistani security circles to act in defiance of Islamabad's wishes has to worry Musharraf...
...There's certainly a pattern here: The last time Vajpayee traveled to Pakistan for talks, in February 1999, there were massacres in Kashmir on the eve of his departure, also blamed on Pakistani hard-liners opposed to the rapprochement. Indeed, the muted response to the recent killings in India suggests they weren't entirely unexpected. India's leaders are keeping their eyes on the prize, starting the peace talks, despite the killings - after all, stopping the talks may well have been the killers' objective...
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...wonderful actor named Om Puri--a pockmarked, middle-age Pakistani. A year ago, in My Son, the Fanatic, he was a taxi driver in a grim industrial town in the north of England. Now he's back in a similar hardscrabble environment, this time as George, the proprietor of a fish-and-chips shop in a working-class London suburb in the '70s. He long ago married an Englishwoman (Linda Bassett, in a splendidly grounded performance). But he is determined that his numerous progeny embrace tradition--especially when it comes to love. As East Is East opens...