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Article: India set to launch 'small war' US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld will go to Asia next week to try to ease tensions between India and Pakistan.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- May 31, 2002
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Byline: Scott Baldauf and V.K. Shashikumar
NEW DELHI -- India and Pakistan are edging closer and closer to war.
Pakistan confirmed yesterday that it is moving troops away from the Afghan border, where they have been helping the US hunt for Al Qaeda fighters, due to the looming military threat on its eastern flank. US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will head to the region next week to try to defuse tensions.
Indian military sources say India has secretly told the US and Britain that it will wait two weeks to see if international diplomatic pressure halts infiltration of Islamic militants into Indian territory. "This could be easily ...