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INDIA-PAKISTAN
Food Heals Historic Hostility
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI - If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, then the path to peace between India and Pakistan may lie in the commonalities in their cultures and cuisines.
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PAKISTAN-INDIA
Women Expose Secret Genital Cutting Rite
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI - "It was a dark and dingy room, where an elderly woman asked me to take off my panties, made me sit on a low wooden stool with my legs parted and then did something…I screamed out in pain," recalls Alefia Mustansir, 40, of her childhood experience.
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INDIA
Kashmir Clamours for Normalcy
By Athar Parvaiz
SRINAGAR, India - As armed insurgency in India’s northern Jammu and Kashmir ebbs, the elected state government is keen to hasten a return to normalcy by easing draconian security laws and reopening movie theatres and liquor shops, banned by fundamentalist militant groups.
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INDIA
Kashmiris Hail Hague Stay on Dam
By Athar Parvaiz
GUREZ, Jammu & Kashmir - A ruling by the International Court of Arbitration (ICA) at The Hague, staying construction of a dam across a river that flows into Pakistan, has brought cheer to the tribal people who live around the site.
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Outrage as Terror Revisits India’s Financial Capital
By Sujoy Dhar
MUMBAI - Hastimal Sen mistook the deafening sounds of explosions that shook his office in Mumbai’s crowded Zaveri Bazaar Wednesday evening as cars backfiring.
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Pew Survey Reaffirms Pakistanis Hostility Toward the U.S.
By Naseema Noor
WASHINGTON - The Pakistani public’s perceptions of the United States have hit their lowest levels since the 2002 invasion of Afghanistan, according to a new survey released here Tuesday by the Pew Global Attitudes Project (GAP).
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INDIA-PAKISTAN
Osama’s Death Changes Little
Analysis by Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - Osama bin Laden’s killing by U.S. troops, in a safe house adjacent to a Pakistani military academy in Abbottabad, may vindicate India’s charges that its neighbour is a haven for jihadist groups, but it will do little to change that reality.
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ENVIRONMENT
Smugglers Axing Kashmir Forests
By Athar Parvaiz
SRINAGAR - During the summer of 2010 Kashmir saw one of the worst face-offs between pro-freedom Kashmiri youth and law enforcement agencies. Smugglers used the unrest surrounding these outbreaks to conceal their steady ramping up of the black market timber trade, at times with complicity of authorities.
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India Gathers Military Might
Analysis by Peter Custers
LEIDEN, the Netherlands - Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev signed a large number of contracts with India during a two-day visit to New Delhi in December. These deals were part of a series of agreements that have placed India in progressively more advantageous positions in global arms markets.
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INDIA
Animals Nearing Extinction Need Urgent Attention – Experts
By Athar Parvaiz
SRINAGAR - With threats looming large on the survival of several wildlife species in the Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir in northern India, experts warn that these species could go extinct in the coming years unless immediate steps are taken to prevent their extinction.
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INDIA
Hanging for Pakistani Sets Back Anti-Death Penalty Campaign
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - The death sentence awarded to Pakistani national Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 22, for his role in the 2008 terror attack on the western port city of Mumbai that killed 166 people is being seen as a setback to a campaign to have the extreme punishment abolished in India.
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US
Increased Focus and Growing Pressure on Pakistan
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - While President Barack Obama’s announcement last week that he will "surge" 30,000 more U.S. troops into Afghanistan has received all of the attention here over the past week, Pakistan appears to be looming larger than ever in Washington’s strategic calculations and concerns.
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INDIA
Mumbai Attacks One Year Later
Analysis by Neeta Lal
NEW DELHI - "A bullet whizzed past us smashing the window to smithereens! My terrorised daughter slid under the nearest table. Everybody ran helter-skelter to save their lives. Just then three menacing-looking youths dressed in black exploded into the wedding hall, brandishing AK-47s. They started shooting indiscriminately, and soon our wedding venue was transformed into a battleground for dead bodies."
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India and Pakistan have fought four wars since gaining independence from colonial rule and undergoing partition in 1947. The hostility is embodied in the conflict over the state of Jammu and Kashmir. After the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, which left 180 dead, the tension has escalated. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accused Pakistan of supporting the terrorists; and Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik admitted they were partly plotted in Pakistan. But not all is about what both governments say or do, civil society also plays a role.