Of Spooks And Insurrection

It's hard to find decent work in a war zone. Just ask Ilyas, 28, a Kashmiri, father of five and a guide by profession. Ilyas works for Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence. His job is to smuggle jihadis and their munitions into India's portion of Kashmir. If he survives the bullets, land mines and mortars that greet him in the freezing no-man's-land between the two countries, the ISI pays him $334 per trip. If not, his family gets his last paycheck. "Every time I leave home," says Ilyas, "my wife and I say goodbye as if we're seeing each other for...

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