Former American President Bill Clinton referred to Kashmir as the "most dangerous place on earth." In 1999 nuclear-armed powers India and Pakistan fought a war over Kashmir, and again in 2002 they came close to another. The Kashmir dispute represents one of the world's oldest and most intractable conflicts, having befuddled policy makers since the partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Author Arvin Bahl attempts to analyze this conflict in the context ...
