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Article: On the brink: are India and Pakistan headed for war?(history of conflict between the two countries)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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KASHMIR, India--The fuse is burning--and the bomb may soon explode into war unless longtime enemies India and Pakistan find a way to extinguish it--and fast.
As CE went to press, hundreds of thousands of troops from both countries massed along the 1,800-mile border between the nuclear-armed neighbors. Both sides deployed missiles that can be fitted with nuclear warheads. In the disputed territory of Kashmir, tanks rolled into position. Soldiers dug bunkers and buried land mines along the Line of Control, the formal border that divides Kashmir into its Pakistani and Indian parts. If full-scale war erupts, it is likely to start in this mountainous region where ...