What kind of fallout will the Iraq war have on Kashmir?
The contours of terrorism in Kashmir are different from Iraq. Iraq is a totally different scenario and as far as Kashmir is concerned, I don’t think there would be any significant change except that Pakistanis will continue to fish in troubled waters as they have been doing so. General Musharraf has been bowling — as I tell the Americans — googlies at them. Saying something and trying to appease all the constituencies he has: the Americans, his own domestic constituency, the fundamentalist leaders. We should be clear as to how to eliminate terrorism in J&K which we are doing. There is a multi-pronged approach by the government and we know we have to fight, eliminate and eradicate terrorism from J&K. India is too big a country to want any assistance from anyone. Some quarters ingovernment believethe Nadimarg massacre was an attempt by President Pervez Musharaf to assure his domestic constituency that Pakistan has not changed its Kashmir policy despite international pressure. Is that t
