Asia.view: The valley of despond

But a few reasons for hope in Kashmir NOT so long ago, Kashmir seemed a rarity among the globe’s interminable, intractable conflicts, in that it actually seemed to be improving. It was no longer cited as the conflagration most likely to spark a nuclear war. The two countries contesting sovereignty—India and Pakistan—were not about to resolve their dispute; yet, slowly but surely, they were building better... [read full story]