{"id":1948,"date":"2004-12-05T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2004-12-05T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-06T04:40:00","slug":"kashmir_still_boiling_on_the_back_burner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/12\/kashmir_still_boiling_on_the_back_burner\/","title":{"rendered":"Strife&#045;torn Muslim lands: Kashmir still boiling on the back burner"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/bush_mush.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\">How may I help you?<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>In the background of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca%2Fservlet%2FArticleNews%2Fstory%2FCTVNews%2F1102252033016_19%2F%3Fhub%3DCTVNewsAt11\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">continuing<\/a> Middle East violence, the 50+ year-old conflict in Kashmir continues to languish in the back pages of the world\u2019s newspapers.  This, despite being a potential powder keg between two nuclear powers, not to mention another terrorism \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfrterrorism.org%2Fgroups%2Fharakat.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">honey pot<\/a>\u201c.  However, there has been movement behind the scenes as India and Pakistan send out feelers and make confidence-building moves, including bus travel (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com%2F2004%2F12%2F06%2Ftop3.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">without passports!<\/a>) between the regional capitals of both halves of Kashmir.  Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf used his recent trip to the White House to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Fworld%2Fla-fg-arms4dec04%2C1%2C5792787.story%3Fcoll%3Dla-headlines-world\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">buy some weapons<\/a> and cash in some hard-earned chips in exchange for progress on the Israel-Palestine and Kashmir conflicts.  (This despite shrugging his shoulders at bin Laden\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F20b2de9c-472b-11d9-b099-00000e2511c8.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">cold trail<\/a> and telling Bush to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com%2F2004%2FUS%2F12%2F05%2Fmusharraf.cnn%2F\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">his face<\/a> that invading Iraq made the world \u201cless safe\u201d.)  \u201cWe must address the root causes, and get to the source of what produces terrorism,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk%2Farticle%2F0%2C%2C3-1390480%2C00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> Musharraf in Washington.  \u201cThat would kill 50 per cent of the problem.\u201d  On Kashmir, Musharraf wanted to get Bush\u2019s backing of his own efforts at a diplomatic solution to the conflict (he ended up <a href=\"http:\/\/in.rediff.com%2Fnews%2F2004%2Fnov%2F09us.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">getting<\/a> outgoing Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage\u2019s praise), after getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com%2Fstories%2Fafp_asiapacific%2Fview%2F116952%2F1%2F.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">positive reaction<\/a> from India to some trial balloons he launched in the media.  \u201cA proposal made at <i>Iftar<\/i> cannot be accepted as a formal proposal,\u201d said Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh.  \u201cIf such a formal proposal is made, we will certainly look at it.\u201d  Meanwhile, as in Iraq, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca%2Fstory%2Fworld%2Fnational%2F2004%2F12%2F05%2Fkashmir041205.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">attacks<\/a> on security personnel continue, with the outlawed Pakistani militant group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeerah.info%2F6n%2FKashmir%2520Secessionists%2520Kill%25208%2520Soldiers%2C%2520Officer.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hizbul Mujahedeen<\/a> taking responsibility for the latest one that killed 11.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With George Bush&#8217;s re-election, Pakistan&#8217;s Pervez Musharraf is hoping to get US movement on permanent solutions to the Palestine &amp; 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