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Kashmir Powder Keg |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: Ben Barber |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1999 |
| Size: 2,202 Words, 14,972 Characters |
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For the United States, this could mean a new era of global instability--marked by lower nuclear war thresholds and stepped-up arms races--that could affect U.S. trade, national security, and capital markets.
Pakistan and India, while having few warheads, have animosities aplenty. These play out fiercely along the Line of Control (LOC) dividing Kashmir since 1947, where Indian and Pakistani artillery rounds smash into shops, houses, and apple orchards on both sides of the border.
With its spectacular views of the Himalayas from languid houseboats on Lake Dal in the state capital of Srinagar, the Vale of Kashmir was for British India an escape from the heat of the Indian plains. But at their independence in 1947, both India and Pakistan claimed it, and today it has beco...
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...s and video rental shops.
Now Kashmiri women once more show their faces as they shop and walk about the towns or picnic in the parks.
As the Indian army scored successes, the militancy died down.
Nevertheless, Kashmir--with its suffocating military rule, unfulfilled yearnings, and roiling hatreds--remains today tense and restive, a ticking bomb set to explode.
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