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India-Pakistan: Back to the Brink
THE CONFLICT | KASHMIR | INDIA/PAKISTAN | SUBCONTINENTAL DRIFT | PHOTO ESSAYS | INTERVIEWS | POLLS

January 14, 2002 January 14, 2002
INCHING TOWARD WAR?
With their armies deployed and rhetoric heating up, India and Pakistan eye each other warily. Will the two nuclear rivals step back from the brink, or is the region primed to explode?
000403cover Feb 5, 2001
IN THE LINE OF FIRE
After decades of conflict, thousands of sons murdered and a long-standing drought of hope in the disputed region, India and Pakistan are starting a hesitant peace process
000403cover April 3, 2000
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
During a colorful visit, Bill Clinton wins kudos for diplomacy but is muted on the region's most critical issue, Kashmir
000403cover Dec 6, 1999
DECADE OF GRIEF
After 10 years of bloodshed in the contested territory, outsiders have begun to take up the violent struggle that native Kashmiris wish would finally cease
000403cover Oct. 25, 1999
RETURN OF THE GENERALS
The army ends the country's decade-long experiment in democracy, ousting a discredited civilian government but remaining quiet about its own plans to rule
000403cover July 12, 1999
DEATH IN THE CLOUDS
The fighting in Kashmir between Indian troops and Pakistani intruders has all the earmarks of a real war--and no end in sight

PHOTO ESSAYS
Pakistan: A Country Divided
Soldiers Pakistan's delicate stance in the war against terrorism has put its aspirations of modernity in conflict with its Islamist roots. Photographer John Stanmeyer captures the sounds and images of a country divided

 Kashmir: State of Unrest
Photographer James Nachtwey's view of this contested territory's decade of grief

Life on the Line
Soldiers Residents of villages along the Pakistani side of the Line of Control face a fierce and bloody barrage


THE CONFLICT

January 14, 2002
The Poet and the Soldier
Both Vajpayee and Musharraf have aspirations for peace. But can they make it happen?

January 14, 2002
The Proxy War
Of spooks and insurrection: how Jihad came to Kashmir

January 14, 2002
Jail Time For The Fanatics
Can Islamabad tamp its radicals down?

December 31, 2001
The Cold War Heats Up
Severing diplomatic ties with Pakistan, India takes the subcontinent one scary step closer to conflict

December 24, 2001
The Next Wave?
A suicide attack on India's Parliament could open a new front in the war against terror

July 30, 2001
Dispatches from a Battleground
The Indo-Pakistani summit in Agra failed. And while the two sides were talking, the killings continued in the contested region

July 18, 2001
Picking Up the Pieces
TIME's Michael Fathers says the failure of talks between India and Pakistan is likely to escalate the bloody conflict in Kashmir

July 17, 2001
Subcontinental Drift: The General Wins
Why Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf went home victorious

July 13, 2001
'Don't Expect Anything Dramatic to Emerge From the Summit'
Cell Phone from Delhi: TIME's Delhi Bureau Chief Michael Fathers talks on the eve of the summit

July 2, 2001
A Case of Self Promotion
Pakistan's ruler gives himself a leg up ahead of a crucial summit in Delhi. Can the President do any better than the general?

June 27, 2001
Subcontinental Drift: Friend or Foe
India's sudden warming to Musharraf is a bad idea

May 24, 2001
Will Peace Emerge?
TIME's Michael Fathers says the summit between India and Pakistan could be the first step toward peace in the region

Feb. 5, 2001
Play Nice
Half a century, two wars, thousands of killings, millions of damaged lives. Are India and Pakistan stumbling toward resolution of the Kashmir divide?

July. 13, 2001
Political Limbo
The people of Pakistan's Northern Areas want an end to alienation and statelessness


POLLS
Do you think India and Pakistan can resolve the Kashmir conflict without the help of a neutral mediator?
Yes  No  Not sure


Should the existing Line of Control in Kashmir be made a permanent border?
Yes  No  Not sure


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