World: The Curious Battle of Kasur

According to the rival claims, both Pakistan and India won a stunning victory over each other last week around the border city of Kasur. The outside world has mostly had to take such grandiose boasts on faith since neither government encourages close press coverage of the war. But TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers managed to get to Kasur, a bustling Pakistani city of 100,000, 37 miles southeast of embattled Lahore and only five miles from the Indian border.

"Kasur is deserted and its inhabitants scattered over the countryside," Rademaekers reported. "Buzzards wheel overhead and settle with a flourish of wings on the swollen...

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