FAILED INDO-PAK RELATIONS

Kashmir deal could have eased task in Afghanistan - PI, 23 September 2009.

"Some of the harsh choices Americans face on Afghanistan might have been avoided had secret efforts by Pakistan and India to end their dispute over Kashmir not been derailed in 2007...The talks got little notice in the U.S. media until a detailed article by South Asia expert Steve Coll in the New Yorker in March 2009."

ABSTRACT OF COLL ARTICLE HERE
SEARCH: Steve Coll, A Reporter at Large, "The Back Channel," The New Yorker, 2 March 2009, p. 38.

Kashmiri leaders want resumption of talks - DT, 24 September 2009.
No peace without Kashmir solution - CT, 24 September 2009.