Mr Vajpayee has in effect turned the clock back to February 1999, when Kashmir was just one of several subjects on a broader agenda for improving Indo-Pakistani relations.

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For the last several years, as clock speeds have inexorably ramped up, the one-gigahertz barrier has for computer buffs taken on the significance of the sound barrier or the four-minute mile.

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