{"id":2042,"date":"2002-05-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/05\/30\/2002-05-30-salman-rushdie-on-india-and-pakistan-in-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2002-05-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-30T12:00:00","slug":"2002-05-30-salman-rushdie-on-india-and-pakistan-in-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/05\/30\/2002-05-30-salman-rushdie-on-india-and-pakistan-in-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Salman Rushdie on India and Pakistan in New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/05\/30\/opinion\/30RUSH.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, NEW YORK, May 30, 2001: Author Salman Rushdie offers his analysis and approach to tensions between India and Pakistan in this New York Times editorial, which is, at least in comparison to a lot of editorials on the situation, relatively well-informed on the ground realities. An excerpt, &#8220;This time President Musharraf is the one being pressed by the United States to stamp out Kashmiri terrorism. He has been playing a double game, arresting hundreds of members of the groups he once fostered but quietly freeing most of them soon afterward. Caught between two necessities &#8212; placating his major international sponsor and playing to the home audience &#8212; he may well in the end follow his deepest political instincts: to support (overtly or covertly) the Islamist radicals who have terrorized the once idyllic valley of Kashmir for well over a decade.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, NEW YORK, May 30, 2001: Author Salman Rushdie offers his analysis and approach to tensions,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}