Kashmir

  • Killing ourselves in Afghanistan

    In a secret meeting with a Taliban commander, I learned how Bush administration aid to Pakistan helps fund insurgents who kill U.S. troops.
  • Not in our name

    As a veteran of the conflict can testify, the train blasts weren't the only Kashmir-related violence in India on Tuesday.
  • Rain, blood and sirens

    On foot and by rickshaw, from train station to hospital, a Bombay writer surveys the aftermath of the bombings.
  • A battlefield far from the front

    With the anger of the Muslim world focused on Iraq, jihadis extend the war to volatile Kashmir -- leaving 24 Hindus dead and hope deeply strained.
  • The India-Pakistan doomsday scenario

    U.S. intelligence says a nuclear exchange between the two feuding countries could kill 12 million. Here's how experts believe the region could explode.
  • One thing India and Pakistan can agree on

    A Kashmir independence fighter makes enemies on both sides as he dreams of a free and secular state and tries to stay out of prison.
  • Coup d'itat: Pakistan gets a new sheriff

    The overthrow of Pakistan's publicly elected government may bode poorly for democracy, but who's crying?
  • Pakistani purge

    The coup in Pakistan seems to have wide popular support -- with the proviso that military rule should be temporary.
  • Letters to the Editor

    India needs the Net's free information; Connie Chung's a bitch and a lousy journalist; what's Hillary doing with Al Sharpton?
  • India darkens Dawn

    The giant nation's online censorship of a Pakistani newspaper highlights its disturbing hold on the Internet.
  • Indian roulette

    A veteran correspondent in India says that politics and frustrated nationalism together prompted the government to explode nuclear weapons.

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