Two "great games" currently roil South Asia. In the West, Afghanistan - and what Henry Kissinger calls "Islamist Jihadists" - challenges the international order. In the East, a large number of Chinese troops have entered Pakistani-held territory high in the mountain fastness of the Kashmir Karakorams, in the picturesque Gilgit-Baltistan region, not far from the glacial battlefield of Siachen, where India and Pakistan confront each other.
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