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Article: Pakistan, India at each other's throats a long time
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- January 6, 2002
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NEW DELHI, India - When Pakistan's president came to India for a
summit in July and visited his ancestral home in New Delhi, the
current occupant told him: "You said you would come here and make new
history. I pray that you are able to do that."
"God willing," Gen. Pervez Musharraf replied.
The leaders of Pakistan and India are making new history, but it's
based on the same old story. Since the painful 1947 partition of the
subcontinent along religious lines - predominantly Hindu India and
Islamic Pakistan - they have fought three wars. They are now risking
a fourth, armed with nuclear weapons.
Double time bombs of religion, territory
Why do these two countries, with centuries of shared ...