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India Warms to Pakistani President |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: Maseeh Rahman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 785 Words, 5,025 Characters |
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Even before seizing power in a 1999 military coup, Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan exercised great influence over India-Pakistan relations.
In May of that year, the traditionally hostile neighbors went to war over Kashmir after Pakistan's army, led then as now by Musharraf, took control of territory on the Indian side of the Line of Control (LOC) that divides the disputed Himalayan region.
President Clinton intervened to stop the fighting. But the high-altitude conflict quickly vaporized hopes of a turnaround in Indo-Pakistani relations that had been generated by a bilateral summit meeting a few months earlier ...
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...d at a breakfast meeting with editors. "Unless we resolve the core issue, it can erupt again in a different time frame and under a different leadership."
The message was clear: The once belligerent Pakistani general has recast himself as the linchpin who alone may be able to guarantee peace between South Asia's feuding, nuclear-armed neighbors.
Copyright © 2005 The Washington Times, LLC.
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