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Three Blasts in New Delhi Kill at Least 55
Pakistan Strongly Condemns Attacks

By Muneeza Naqvi

Special to The Washington Post

Sunday, October 30, 2005; Page A17

India and Pakistan have moved toward serious peace since the close call on war in late 2001 and early 2002. The Pakistan temblor and India's warm response on help only accelerated that sense of hope and progress, so naturally, the enemies of that connectivity must strike to prevent its full flowering.

The key now is, how do Pakistan and India deal with this?

There is little doubt that India and others, including the U.S., get pulled much more dramatically over time into Pakistan in an attempt to deal with all the transnational terror potential located within.

Yet another exmaple that our most incentivized allies over the long haul will be New Core pillars like India, China, Russia, Brazil and others--the countries really on front lines surrounding the Gap.