India/Pakistan
By Larry Habegger | Permalink |
No Comments | December 22nd, 2003 | Trackback
Relations continue to warm between these two long-hostile countries. Train service will be resumed Jan. 15 when the Samjhauta Express begins its twice weekly runs between the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore and the Indian border town of Attari. Train service has been suspended for two years. Air links between the two countries are set to resume Jan. 1. And in a further effort to solve the dispute over Kashmir, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf offered to drop the country’s 50-year-old demand that the U.N. implement resolutions calling for a plebiscite to determine whether the disputed territory would remain part of India or shift to Pakistan. These are beginning steps, but hopes are rising that peace in Kashmir is possible.
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India/Pakistan
By Larry Habegger | Permalink |
No Comments | December 3rd, 2003 | Trackback
The rapprochement between India and Pakistan seems to get stronger by the day, with recent news including an agreement to resume air links between the two countries Jan. 1, Pakistan’s president offering to remove all of his troops from Kashmir if India does the same, and a cease-fire now in place in that troubled region. Previously a bus link had been reestablished and ambassadors posted. Hopes have been dashed in the past, but for now the news is positive, and perhaps Kashmir’s woes may be seeing the beginning of the end.
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