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Article: Ever more dangerous in Kashmir.(India and Pakistan battle over Kashmir)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 19, 1999
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DELHI AND LAHORE
India and Pakistan may stumble into another war over the disputed state
THE fighting is in Kashmir but the panic is spreading far beyond. Punjabis are fleeing their homes on both sides of the Indian-Pakistani border, fearing that their villages will become battlegrounds, as they did in 1965 and 1971. The respective armies share that fear. Both are engaged in the biggest mobilisation along the border since they last nearly came to blows, in 1987. Neither government wants war, but each half-expects the other to start one. A "fourth war... seems just around the corner," said a Pakistani newspaper this week.
It could start by ...
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