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Article: South Asia's Politics of Hate.(India, Pakistan)
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- The World and I
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- May 1, 2003
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On December 13, 2001, a group of militants with alleged links to Pakistan staged an unprecedented terrorist attack in India, striking Parliament, the very heart of Indian democracy. This assault set off a chain of events that ended up with the biggest military mobilization in the subcontinent's history, with nearly a million troops eyeball to eyeball.
Armed with nuclear weapons, both sides made allusions to their "ultimate weapons" should war break out. While warfare was averted, their tense standoff has eased only minimally. India has pulled troops back from the international border but kept them on the Line of Control that divides Kashmir between India and ...
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