Posted on 11/04/2005 4:18:10 AM PST by Gengis Khan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is optimistic that India is willing to consider Islamabad’s proposal for the demilitarisation of Kashmir, the Foreign Office said on Wednesday.
Reports from New Delhi indicate that India is willing to consider Pakistan’s demilitarisation proposal, Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam told a press briefing. “This is a positive indication. If India agrees to the idea, then the two countries can have discussions to work out details,” she said.
Aslam said Pakistan had asked India to share the evidence it has, if any, about the “foreign links” in the New Delhi bomb blasts so Islamabad can take action against those responsible.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had told President General Pervez Musharraf over the phone that preliminary investigations pointed to the possibility of foreign involvement in the blasts. “The president assured the Indian prime minister of Pakistan’s full cooperation in the investigations,” she said.
The spokeswoman said arrangements had been put in place to implement the understanding reached between Pakistan and India for the opening of five crossing points on the Line of Control (LoC) from November 7.
She said this would be a big step for Kashmiris on both sides of the LoC, as it would make it easier for them to meet each other and share their grief following the devastating earthquake of October 8. About the mechanism, she said it would be the same as adopted for the Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus service.
Asked whether it would be practicable for people living along the LoC in the present circumstances to get permission to visit the other side, the spokeswoman said Pakistan had originally proposed that any document of identity be acceptable. “However, this was not agreed to by India.”
Aslam said it was wrong to say NATO had sent its forces to Pakistan. “These are teams of engineers and doctors who have come here to render assistance in relief operations. They will help repair roads and rebuild infrastructure,” she said, adding that they would be in Pakistan for an initial period of three months.
She said many countries including the United States were assisting in handling the crisis caused by the earthquake. Turkey, Iran and the United Kingdom were among the first countries to have come to Pakistan’s aid.
Saudi Arabia, she said, had pledged financial assistance of $133 million and, at the initiative of the Saudi king, an entire week had been dedicated to collecting contributions for earthquake victims. Cuba had sent 300 doctors to Pakistan.
She confirmed that a Pakistani delegation was being sent to Gaza and the West Bank. “Originally, the delegation was to embark on the visit sometime this month. It might be delayed as in the wake of the earthquake foreign visits are being reviewed.”
Demilitarization is nice...but there's that pesky problem of muslim terrorists in Kashmir...is Pakistan taking responsibility to disarm them as well?
Demilitarization is nice...but there's that pesky problem of muslim terrorists in (everywhere)
Dear India,
Disarm and you will be destroyed by the Nutjihabis.
Peace talks with crazies never solved anything.
The Indian Government as lost its mind. The Pakistani terrorists have just carried out bombings in Delhi and we are still talking peace and demilitarisation with Pakistan. It seems the Indian Government wants to gift Kashmir to Pakistan.
The modern world seems bent on suicide.
The modern world is gripped by fear.
Threats of nuclear attack by tinpot dictators, people beheaded on TV, biological/ chemical agents wielded by Muslims sworn to destroy civilization. And so much more.
Most people react as many do to such realities; it's denial time. I'll get in my car, go to work, take the kids to soccer, and everything will be just fine. After all, those pretty faces on the news keep saying that it's our fault as a nation, and once we get rid of President Bush and the Republicans, all will be set right again. Those terrorists, Kim Jong, and their ilk may even like us, they say.
If religion is the opium of the masses, then I'll submit to you that left wing dogma is pure, unadulterated heroin. Leaving its users to conjure up any dream they wish as they lie in stupor.
It seems to me that an analogy can be made. Call the mass media a bunch of heroin pushers, and the people of the world the users.
The United States can be likened to someone trying to intervene on the behalf of a friend; we drag people to the mirror in the morning after a binge and tell 'em, 'you look like crap today, you can't keep doing this'. Nobody wants to hear it......and of course the pusher (media) doesn't like people who interfere with the peddling of the product. They get very nasty about it; they may even try to take them out.
The United States isn't the cause of Islamofascists being on the march. The Islamofascists are on the march simply because they like it.
We are holding up that proverbial mirror to the world, splashing water into the faces of a world lying in a stupor, and they resent us for it. They want to go back to sleep and pleasant dreams.
Thats just talk, no Indian govt will go for demilitrization until the terror attacks stop. I think that is more for American consumption. The Senate and Congress like hearing stuff like peace etc etc.
Do you really think they are going to demilitarize?
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