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Article: Dicing with Armageddon; India and Pakistan.(Terrorism in Kashmir)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2002
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The latest terrorist outrage in Kashmir has pushed India and Pakistan a little closer to the brink
"IT IS just this type of barbarism that the international war on terrorism is determined to stop." So said Christina Rocca, the top American diplomat for South Asia, of the killing on May 14th of 31 people, most of them soldiers' wives and children, at an army camp in Kaluchak in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It is also the sort of attack that India has given warning would provoke retaliation against Pakistan, which could spark the first war between nuclear powers.
Mrs Rocca was already shuttling between the Indian and Pakistani capitals to head ...