When Richard Armitage, the United States deputy secretary of state, visited India and Pakistan at the end of last week, he said that tensions between the two nuclear powers had "eased". But L.K. Advani, India's deputy prime minister, was reported as saying at the same time in London that "we are at war"; and this week Yashwant Sinha, India's foreign min- ister, refused to agree with Mr Armitage's assessment. So is there a risk of returning to the situation of May, when there was a widely perceived risk of war?
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