The Kashmir conflict is in the hands of two populist leaders with political agendas, writes NicRobertsonCNN
These are the stakes that face both the recently-elected Imran Khan in Pakistan and Narendra Modi, of the Hindu Nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in India, who is soon to face the electorate again.To avoid escalating their current confrontation, the two prime ministers will have to face down the powerful pull of historic rivalries and mistrust, coupled with the more immediate needs of their own political careers.Both countries say they don't want war.
There, just north of the end of the Line of Control, the two nations hold front line positions some 20,000 feet above sea level. But it is the low lying populist plains in its south that Pakistan most fears are weak to an Indian invasion. Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's breadbasket state Punjab, lies less than an hour's drive from the Wagah-Attari border and the towering flag-ceremony guards.
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