Summit ascended, but Kashmir not yet broached

摘要

Just before midnight on July 16th, President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military ruler, put a dramatic end to a three-day summit in the Indian city of Agra by walking out of a final meeting with India's prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and flying home to Islamabad. The summit had begun two days earlier with expansive gestures and well-choreographed symbolism. But it appeared to have broken down so badly over the disputed state of Kashmir and cross-border terrorism that there were immediate fears that the two nuclear powers would be tempted to step up their border skirmishes.