From The Wall Street Journal:
NEW DELHI -- In the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, India has canceled talks aimed at solving a long-running border dispute with Pakistan -- not in Kashmir, but in the teeming fishing waters of Sir Creek, which divides the two South Asian nations in the Arabian Sea.
The narrow, 60-mile-long estuary has been a bone of contention between the two nations for decades. But the dispute has been given new urgency -- and stoked new controversy -- because it featured in the buildup to the Mumbai terrorist attacks that left 171 people dead in late November. It was in the Sir Creek area where the 10 hijackers who set sail from Karachi, Pakistan, hijacked an Indian fishing boat that provided them with the cover to reach Mumbai undetected.
Even before the Mumbai attacks, there were concerns that the area could prove to be a staging post for terrorists.
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My Comment: Both sides just want to escalate their hatred to each other in order to distract their populations from the hardships and disappointments that they are going through on a daily basis. Unfortunately .... these "distractions" can sometimes spiral out of control .... especially when extremists use them to ferment armed revolt.
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