The terrorist next door

October 21, 2013 21:37

Recent incidents on the Line of Control (LoC) '" the frontier between India and Pakistan in the state of Jammu and Kashmir '" have again raised fundamental questions about the nuclear-armed neighbors' fraught relationship.

Early this month, India's army foiled an attempted incursion by a group of 30 to 40 militants from Pakistani territory, leading Indian critics to decry official peace overtures. Indeed, barely two weeks before the latest incident, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met with his Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, during the United Nations General Assembly session in New York.

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