NEW DELHI -- U.S. President Bill Clinton arrives in India on Sunday, the region that he recently termed the most dangerous place on Earth. There may be an element of truth in that.
During the past 50 years, India and Pakistan have waged three full-scale wars, and been party to a high-casualty flareup at the Himalayan border area of Kargil in Kashmir last year. Besides, their armies have led an eyeball-to-eyeball existence that ever so often resulted in minor clashes.
With the two countries having gone nuclear, and with Islamabad aiding, abetting and training terrorists to create havoc in Kashmir -- whose union with India has been a terrible bone of contention between the two neighbors -- the American president's concern may not be misplaced.