India/Pakistan

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | July 2nd, 2002 | Trackback

Citing a lessening of the high tensions of the past month, the State Department has replaced its warning against all travel to India with a warning to defer all but essential travel here. Non-emergency embassy and consular personnel and family members who left the country have not returned, and tensions could increase at any time. Both governments worked to avoid a catastrophe, but their armies remain posted in massive numbers along the line of control in Kashmir, and India recently announced theirs wouldn’t stand down before October. Because of the concern about terrorist actions against Americans in Pakistan, the State Department still warns against all travel there.

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