...Showkat Nanda More than 90,000 people have been killed in Kashmir since the armed insurgency broke out in 1989. About eight years ago, the conflict transformed; gun-wielding militants were replaced by stone-throwing young men and boys, but India’s response—sustained oppression by security forces...

...Radha Kumar Copyright © 2002 World Policy Institute 2002 R adha Kum ar is a senior fellow an d director o f the Program on Ethnic Conflict an d Peace Processes a t the Council on Foreign Relations, New York. Untying the Kashmir Knot R adha Kumar...

... the fortnightly “Past and Present” col­ umn for The Hindu of Chennai. Opening a Window in Kashmir Ramachandra G uha We here recall a forgotten incident Other visitors were more celebrated, but in the history of India-Pakistan rela­ no other visitor—at least no other male...

.... It is a declining state with a Pakistan led by the military on a martial strong army, a defensive fortress that seeks course. Hostility toward India and the to alter the status quo, and a partner in the strategic prize of Kashmir were always war on terror that is hospitable to terrorists. present. From...

... terrorism, avoiding war between India exercise, “Balance Iroquois 02-1,” in the city and neighboring Pakistan, and resolving the of Agra, the home of the famed Taj Mahal.1 festering Kashmir dispute— all of which are This was the first such endeavor between inextricably linked—and in future...

... miles from Urumqi. I often turn nostalgic when I visit Urumqi—or anywhere in Xinjiang—probably because of its proximity, culturally if not physically, to Kashmir. Feng and our Markor associates understand this connection, which has helped us forge closer relationships. In China especially, personal...

..., in persuading the United States to de­ Meanwhile, the official U.S. reaction to clare Pakistan a terrorist state. Incursions the slaughter in Gujarat has been muted. into Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir by The American ambassador to India, Robert Pakistani-supported Muslim extremists have Blackwill...

... in Ladakh, an Indian- turned to Israel as an alternative supplier, controlled portion of the disputed state of thereby further bolstering the nascent Indo- Jammu and Kashmir. (The terrain where it Israeli relationship. was conducted is markedly similar to that in The Indian...

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..., Mira; “The Struggle for India’s Soul” (XIX:3) Policy” (XIX: 3) Kumar, Radha; “Untying the Kashmir Knot” (XIX: 1) Bacon, Kenneth H., and Maureen Lynch; “Lost in Purgatory: The Kurlantzick, Joshua; “China’s Drug Problem and Looming...

... and asylum-seekers in India, most of whom came not in the most recent 2017 wave, but over the last decade. Of these, half live in the northernmost state of Jammu and Kashmir. They have refugee cards (some even have long-term visas), work as laborers, and rent tin huts in crowded slums. But in 2016, as tens...

... diverse. of Pakistan, Kashmir, Ireland, Palestine and Its chief claim to unity is Islam, on which Cyprus, as well most recently of former its authoritarian rulers have relied, inordi­ Yugoslavia. nately. This has contributed to three wars The unintended consequences of territo­ and a nuclear...

..., pogroms, subcontinent of South Asia,” he said. “There massacres, and other atrocities were com­ is an appalling degree of rancor, bitterness, mitted by both sides. The same could be acrimony, spite, and envy. We do not recog­ said for Kashmir or Assam, where the bru­ nize anything valid...

... of secular destruction of the mosque. Vajpayee further Hindu Nationalism Clouds the Face of India 91 inflamed the situation by saying that a tem­ rillas in the Kashmir, a rebellious province ple for Ram at Ayodhya was “an expression that has caused wars and friction...

... Taliban, Pakistan tried to redress its insecu­ in Kashmir, Chechnya, Tajikistan, Kyrgyz­ rity relative to India, curb Pashtun national­ stan, and Uzbekistan. Networks of narcotics ism, and create a corridor for trade with traffickers collaborating with armed groups, Central Asia. link Afghan poppy...

.... in intergovernmental talks on a host of com­ Images broadcast from the five-day match plex issues, including the status of disputed showed young men with their faces painted Kashmir and nuclear weapons, and interna­ with the saffron, white, and green of the In­ tional attention has been focused on the dian flag...

..., the tive action, but after the event they are de­ ongoing disputes in Cyprus, Northern Ire­ nounced for failure by the same people who land, and Kashmir were notable holdouts, made such action impossible. but even in these cases hopes were raised. Alas, with the possible exception of North­...

... decades. Until his death in 1971, he was the Centenary Commemoration Committee, see www. United Nations chief troubleshooter, a role RalphBuncheCentenary.org. he performed in Lebanon, Bahrain, the Con­ 1. Author’s recollection of a conversation at Lake go, Cyprus, and Kashmir...

... Kashmir and Eastern India. Although some hawks in China and in India may secretly want to dominate the other, these two emerging superpowers and titans of the global economy will have no choice but to ultimately work with each other in one critical arena—energy security. To maintain their current...