‘India’s N-sites ground zero for terrorists
Thursday, November 19, 2009
TORONTO : The Canadian media says a nuclear deal could be risky because of terrorist threats to India’s sites. They cite the recent alert at India’s nuclear facilities as a warning to the Canadian government that is keen to clinch the deal.
John Ibbitson of the Globe and Mail says: “India’s nuclear facilities have been placed on high alert, as evidence emerges that two men, one of them Canadian, might have scouted sites for the terrorist attack on Mumbai last year...
“Does Canada really want to help sell nuclear technology to a country that is the midst of such a volatile region, a country that in the 1970s appropriated our first foray into building Indian nuclear reactors to help fashion nuclear weapons, a country whose nuclear reactors would be an ideal ground zero for jihadists?”
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India involved in militancy in South Waziristan
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
* Kaira says Islamabad to discuss matter with New Delhi
* Large quantity of Indian arms, literature recovered from Sherwan
ISLAMABAD: The government has found concrete evidence of New Delhi’s involvement in the militancy in South Waziristan and has decided to discuss the matter with the Indian government, Information Minster Qamar Zaman Kaira and Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Athar Abbas jointly said on Monday.
Kaira said Islamabad would discuss the issue with New Delhi, adding that Islamabad would still not deviate from the peace process aimed at resolving lingering disputes between the two countries.
Recovered: Abbas said large quantities of Indian arms and ammunition, literature, medical equipment and medicines had been recovered from Sherwangi near Kaniguram. He said the Foreign Office had been informed of the discoveries and the matter would be taken up through diplomatic channels with the Indian authorities.
Labels: India, Military Operation in South Waziristan, War on Terror
posted @ 10:29 AM,
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India and Afghanistan supporting insurgency in Balochistan.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
The News International, Pakistan, Saturday, July 25, 2009
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday told the Senate that the Pakistan government had given proofs to the Indian and Afghan governments regarding their direct involvement in promoting insurgency in Balochistan.
“I myself in a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul provided him proofs regarding three training camps in Afghanistan where Baloch insurgents are being provided training,” he said while responding to a point of order in the Upper House of parliament.
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ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday told the Senate that the Pakistan government had given proofs to the Indian and Afghan governments regarding their direct involvement in promoting insurgency in Balochistan.
“I myself in a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul provided him proofs regarding three training camps in Afghanistan where Baloch insurgents are being provided training,” he said while responding to a point of order in the Upper House of parliament.
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Labels: Afghanistan, Balochistan, India, Insurgency
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Terrorists of 9/11 in Pakistan
Monday, July 20, 2009
The News International, Pakistan, Monday, July 20, 2009
NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are in Pakistan.
Talking to reporters in Gurgaon near here, she said terrorism posed a threat to the world. She expressed the hope that Pakistan would bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks to book.
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NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are in Pakistan.
Talking to reporters in Gurgaon near here, she said terrorism posed a threat to the world. She expressed the hope that Pakistan would bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks to book.
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Labels: 9/11, Hillary Clinton, India, War on Terror
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US urges India to back Pakistan against militants
Saturday, July 18, 2009
The News International,Pakistan, Saturday, July 18, 2009
NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged India on Friday to join Washington in supporting Pakistan’s fight against terrorism, but Delhi demanded results before it begins formal peace talks with its rival.
Clinton arrived in Mumbai late on Friday at the start of a five-day visit designed to cement ties and dispel any doubts about US President Barack Obama’s commitment to India’s role as a rising global power.
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NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged India on Friday to join Washington in supporting Pakistan’s fight against terrorism, but Delhi demanded results before it begins formal peace talks with its rival.
Clinton arrived in Mumbai late on Friday at the start of a five-day visit designed to cement ties and dispel any doubts about US President Barack Obama’s commitment to India’s role as a rising global power.
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Labels: India, Militants, US Pakistan Relations, War on Terror
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US rejects India’s concerns over Pak aid
Thursday, July 2, 2009
The News International, Pakistan, Thursday, July 02, 2009
WASHINGTON: Brushing aside Indian concerns on American assistance for Pakistan, the United States has said the Indians should not worry about Washington’s support for Islamabad and rather back the effort to ratchet up its neighbour’s ability to overcome economic and militancy challenges.
Robert Blake, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, rejected the reported contention by visiting Indian parliamentarians last week that Pakistan might divert the US aid to build up its forces against India.
The senior diplomat acknowledged Islamabad’s focus on tamping down militancy in its troubled areas and reaffirmed the Obama Administration’s commitment to dramatically increase economic assistance for Pakistan.
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WASHINGTON: Brushing aside Indian concerns on American assistance for Pakistan, the United States has said the Indians should not worry about Washington’s support for Islamabad and rather back the effort to ratchet up its neighbour’s ability to overcome economic and militancy challenges.
Robert Blake, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, rejected the reported contention by visiting Indian parliamentarians last week that Pakistan might divert the US aid to build up its forces against India.
The senior diplomat acknowledged Islamabad’s focus on tamping down militancy in its troubled areas and reaffirmed the Obama Administration’s commitment to dramatically increase economic assistance for Pakistan.
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Labels: India, US Aid, US Pakistan Relations, War on Terror
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Babri Masjid demolition report finally submitted after 17 years
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Daily Times, Wednesday, July 01, 2009
NEW DELHI: A judicial commission investigating the nearly 17-year-old demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya presented its report to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Tuesday. Headed by Justice (r) MS Liberhan, the commission obtained 48 extensions to prepare a four-volume report that would be tabled before parliament. The commission, appointed 10 days after the demolition on December 6, 1992, examined 100 witnesses in 399 sittings. However, an official in the Prime Minister’s Office said the report would not be revealed for at least a month, as the government wanted to table it and the action taken report simultaneously towards the end of the parliamentary session on August 7. Home Minister P Chidambaram has taken the report submitted by Liberhan and asked his ministry’s officials to prepare a short summary of four volumes of the inquiry. iftikhar gilani
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Labels: Babri Masjid, Babri Mosque, India
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AI asks India to end torture in IHK
Monday, June 29, 2009
Daily Times, Pakistan, Monday, June 29, 2009
ISLAMABAD: International human rights watchdog Amnesty International (AI) has said the Indian government must take immediate steps to end torture and other human rights violations in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK). In a letter to Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram, AI Asia Pacific Programme Director Sam Zarifi said AI continued to receive reports of torture and ill-treatment of individuals in custody in IHK. “I am writing to express AI’s concerns that torture and other cruel inhuman treatment or punishment are still inflicted widely throughout India,” Zarifi said, asking India to ratify the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment. app
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ISLAMABAD: International human rights watchdog Amnesty International (AI) has said the Indian government must take immediate steps to end torture and other human rights violations in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK). In a letter to Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram, AI Asia Pacific Programme Director Sam Zarifi said AI continued to receive reports of torture and ill-treatment of individuals in custody in IHK. “I am writing to express AI’s concerns that torture and other cruel inhuman treatment or punishment are still inflicted widely throughout India,” Zarifi said, asking India to ratify the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment. app
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Labels: Amnesty International, Foreign Aid, IHK, India, Indian Held Kashmir, Indian State Terrorism
posted @ 9:58 AM,
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India has never been a threat to Pakistan: Gen Kapoor
Sunday, June 28, 2009
The News International, Pakistan, Sunday, June 28, 2009
NEW DELHI: India Army chief General Deepak Kapoor claimed on Saturday that India had never been a threat to Pakistan.
“India has never been a threat to Pakistan. India will be happy to see stability in Pakistan,” Kapoor said in Hyderabad when asked by media persons about call to India to reduce its forces on borders with Pakistan enabling it to deploy more troops on its western borders to fight Taliban.
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NEW DELHI: India Army chief General Deepak Kapoor claimed on Saturday that India had never been a threat to Pakistan.
“India has never been a threat to Pakistan. India will be happy to see stability in Pakistan,” Kapoor said in Hyderabad when asked by media persons about call to India to reduce its forces on borders with Pakistan enabling it to deploy more troops on its western borders to fight Taliban.
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Labels: India, Indo-Pak Relations
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Pakistan, India FMs meet in Italy
Saturday, June 27, 2009
The News International, Pakistan, Saturday, June 27, 2009
ISLAMABAD: The meeting in Trieste on the sidelines of the G-8 Outreach Meeting on Afghanistan, took place in a cordial atmosphere, says a press release issued from the office of the Foreign Office spokesman here.
Reciprocating the sentiment, the Indian foreign minister said India, too, had very positive sentiments for Pakistan. Qureshi expressed the need for constructive engagement and sustained dialogue to address common challenges and to resolve the outstanding issues, irritants and disputes, including problems of water, menace of regional and global terrorism and the unresolved dispute of Jammu and Kashmir. He said the process of dialogue between the leadership of the two countries will continue with the meeting between the prime ministers in Sharm el Sheikh.
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ISLAMABAD: The meeting in Trieste on the sidelines of the G-8 Outreach Meeting on Afghanistan, took place in a cordial atmosphere, says a press release issued from the office of the Foreign Office spokesman here.
Reciprocating the sentiment, the Indian foreign minister said India, too, had very positive sentiments for Pakistan. Qureshi expressed the need for constructive engagement and sustained dialogue to address common challenges and to resolve the outstanding issues, irritants and disputes, including problems of water, menace of regional and global terrorism and the unresolved dispute of Jammu and Kashmir. He said the process of dialogue between the leadership of the two countries will continue with the meeting between the prime ministers in Sharm el Sheikh.
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Labels: India, Indo-Pak Relations, Indo-Pak Talks
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Nasty Realism
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Daily Times, Pakistan, Thursday, June 25, 2009
insight: Ejaz Haider
If and when India and Pakistan go into yet another round of talks, they are likely to talk-talk without really walking the talk. India doesn’t have any incentive to go beyond this and Pakistan will settle for nothing less than something substantive. These are conflicting goals
The meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and India’s Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg and the decision to let the foreign secretaries meet has rekindled hopes that the two states may resume the dialogue that got stalled after the Mumbai attacks.
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insight: Ejaz Haider
If and when India and Pakistan go into yet another round of talks, they are likely to talk-talk without really walking the talk. India doesn’t have any incentive to go beyond this and Pakistan will settle for nothing less than something substantive. These are conflicting goals
The meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and India’s Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg and the decision to let the foreign secretaries meet has rekindled hopes that the two states may resume the dialogue that got stalled after the Mumbai attacks.
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Labels: India, Indo-Pak Relations, Indo-Pak Talks
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Thousands protest in IHK over women’s rape, murder
Daily Times, Pakistan, Thursday, June 25, 2009
SRINAGAR: Thousands of people in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) defied a ban on protest marches on Wednesday with a fresh demonstration over the alleged rape and murder of two young women by troops.
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SRINAGAR: Thousands of people in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) defied a ban on protest marches on Wednesday with a fresh demonstration over the alleged rape and murder of two young women by troops.
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Labels: IHK, India, Indian Held Kashmir, Indian State Terrorism, Kashmir
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‘India has most local terrorist organisations’
Daily Times, Pakistan, Thursday, June 25, 2009
NEW DELHI: India has the largest number of indigenous terror organisations in the world, the Times of India has reported.
It said the Home Ministry has designated the CPI (Maoist) as the 34th terrorist organisation under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Of the 34 organisations, seven are transnational groups. National Liberation Council of Meghalaya, Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup of Manipur and Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekta Samaj, which though virtually unheard of, are considered deadly enough by the government to be designated as terrorist organisations, the daily said.
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Labels: India, Terrorism, War on Terror
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India plans troop cut in IHK
Daily Times, Pakistan, Thursday, June 25, 2009
NEW DELHI: Following massive anti-government protests across the IHK, and intense pressure from the US government, sources have claimed the home ministry is working on a plan to thin the army presence in IHK. While the army wants to defer any decision on the matter until September, the issue would likely be discussed at the meeting of the top commanders of the army, the navy and the air force.
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Top Obama aide to visit Pakistan, Afghanistan, India
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The News International, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 23, 2009
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s top security adviser James Jones will visit Afghanistan and Pakistan to monitor implementation of the new US war plan, a US official said on Monday.
Jones, who will also visit India, will meet local officials, US diplomats, military personnel and representatives of foreign nations battling alongside US troops in the Afghan war coalition. “At the request of the president, national security adviser Jim Jones is traveling to Afghanistan and Pakistan to follow-up on the implementation of our new, comprehensive strategy,” said National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer.
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WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s top security adviser James Jones will visit Afghanistan and Pakistan to monitor implementation of the new US war plan, a US official said on Monday.
Jones, who will also visit India, will meet local officials, US diplomats, military personnel and representatives of foreign nations battling alongside US troops in the Afghan war coalition. “At the request of the president, national security adviser Jim Jones is traveling to Afghanistan and Pakistan to follow-up on the implementation of our new, comprehensive strategy,” said National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer.
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Labels: Afghanistan, India, Obama, US Pakistan Relations, War on Terror
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India conducts another ballistic missile test
Saturday, June 20, 2009
The News International, Pakistan, Saturday, June 20, 2009
NEW DELHI: India on Friday successfully launched a ballistic missile in the second such trial of the nuclear-capable weapon in a month, the defence ministry said. The Agni-II missile blasted off from a testing site in eastern India and ìachieved all its flight parameters,î a senior ministry official told AFP. “It was a user trial conducted by the army and defence scientists,” he said of the rocket, which the military says is capable of hitting targets deep inside China. The test was the second since May 19 when a similar 2,500-kilometre range Agni-II was fired from the same site, hitting a pre-designated target in the Bay of Bengal.
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NEW DELHI: India on Friday successfully launched a ballistic missile in the second such trial of the nuclear-capable weapon in a month, the defence ministry said. The Agni-II missile blasted off from a testing site in eastern India and ìachieved all its flight parameters,î a senior ministry official told AFP. “It was a user trial conducted by the army and defence scientists,” he said of the rocket, which the military says is capable of hitting targets deep inside China. The test was the second since May 19 when a similar 2,500-kilometre range Agni-II was fired from the same site, hitting a pre-designated target in the Bay of Bengal.
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Labels: India, Indian Ballistic Missile Test, Indo-Pak Relations
posted @ 9:26 AM,
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Dialogue with India: old or new?
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Daily Times, Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Speaking at a Pugwash conference in Islamabad on Monday, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani stressed the importance of resuming the dialogue between Pakistan and India “to address issues that have for long been the reason for tensions between the two countries”. He has referred to issues of “long” gestation and therefore desires a return to the Indo-Pak composite dialogue that started in 2004 and stopped in 2007 without resolving the deeply buried issues to which he alluded.
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Labels: India, Indopak Relations
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Pakistan likely to offer intelligence-sharing to India
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Daily Times, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 16, 2009
YEKATERINBURG: Islamabad is expected to suggest an intelligence-sharing mechanism with its top investigators to New Delhi in the first meeting of both countries’ leaders since the Indian government suspended dialogue following the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh are set to resume formal bilateral contact on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon told reporters. However, official sources said this was merely an opportunity to convey the Indian government’s concerns to Pakistan at the highest level. They said the meeting was organised after the Pakistan high commissioner in India expressed President Zardari’s wish to meet Dr Singh. They said the Indian PM would call upon the Pakistani leadership to take credible action against terrorism. Dialogue was being resumed in line with Dr Singh’s vision of maintaining cordial relations with all of India’s neighbours, they added. iftikhar gilani
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YEKATERINBURG: Islamabad is expected to suggest an intelligence-sharing mechanism with its top investigators to New Delhi in the first meeting of both countries’ leaders since the Indian government suspended dialogue following the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh are set to resume formal bilateral contact on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon told reporters. However, official sources said this was merely an opportunity to convey the Indian government’s concerns to Pakistan at the highest level. They said the meeting was organised after the Pakistan high commissioner in India expressed President Zardari’s wish to meet Dr Singh. They said the Indian PM would call upon the Pakistani leadership to take credible action against terrorism. Dialogue was being resumed in line with Dr Singh’s vision of maintaining cordial relations with all of India’s neighbours, they added. iftikhar gilani
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Labels: India, Indopak Relations, Mumbai Attacks, Taliban, War on Terror
posted @ 9:50 AM,
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India considering troop cut in Held Kashmir
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Daily Times, Pakistan
Saturday, June 13, 2009
SRINAGAR: As violence ebbs in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK), India is planning to withdraw some troops from towns across the disputed Himalayan region, India’s home (Interior) minister said on Friday.
A partial withdrawal would mark the first troop reduction in the region’s urban areas since freedom fighters started their campaign 20 years ago.
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
SRINAGAR: As violence ebbs in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK), India is planning to withdraw some troops from towns across the disputed Himalayan region, India’s home (Interior) minister said on Friday.
A partial withdrawal would mark the first troop reduction in the region’s urban areas since freedom fighters started their campaign 20 years ago.
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Labels: India, Indopak Relations, Kashmir
posted @ 9:55 AM,
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A silver lining
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Dawn, Pakistan
Thursday, 11 Jun, 2009
MR Manmohan Singh’s statement in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday will be seen as the olive branch that is badly needed in the present state of impasse between India and Pakistan. By acknowledging honestly that it was in his country’s vital interest to engage with Pakistan, the Indian prime minister has indicated that the peace process could be revived. What is more significant is Mr Singh’s assurance that New Delhi is prepared to walk more than halfway if Pakistan accepts its share of responsibility in the partnership. This is one of the rare occasions that a silver lining has appeared in the dark cloud that has symbolised ties between the two South Asian neighbours since the Mumbai carnage. In recent weeks Pakistan has proposed the resumption of talks but India’s reservations were too manifest. It is now universally recognised that states should resolve their disputes through negotiations rather than recourse to war and violence. India and Pakistan too have made progress towards peace only when they have been engaged in a dialogue as happened in 2004-2008.
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Thursday, 11 Jun, 2009
MR Manmohan Singh’s statement in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday will be seen as the olive branch that is badly needed in the present state of impasse between India and Pakistan. By acknowledging honestly that it was in his country’s vital interest to engage with Pakistan, the Indian prime minister has indicated that the peace process could be revived. What is more significant is Mr Singh’s assurance that New Delhi is prepared to walk more than halfway if Pakistan accepts its share of responsibility in the partnership. This is one of the rare occasions that a silver lining has appeared in the dark cloud that has symbolised ties between the two South Asian neighbours since the Mumbai carnage. In recent weeks Pakistan has proposed the resumption of talks but India’s reservations were too manifest. It is now universally recognised that states should resolve their disputes through negotiations rather than recourse to war and violence. India and Pakistan too have made progress towards peace only when they have been engaged in a dialogue as happened in 2004-2008.
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Labels: India, Indopak Relations
posted @ 9:18 AM,
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