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India lacks "passion" for peace: Pakistan PM
New Delhi (AFP) Jul 29, 2006 Pakistan's Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said India does not share Islamabad's "passion for peace" between the South Asian rivals in an interview published Saturday. "I believe you must have a passion for peace. We in Pakistan, President (Pervez) Musharraf and I, have a passion for peace. I have yet to see this passion on the part of India," Aziz told Outlook magazine. He blamed India for slowing down a peace process launched between the neighbours in 2004 after New Delhi put off talks following train blasts in Mumbai earlier this month that left 183 people dead. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accused "elements from across the border" of helping the Mumbai attackers, warning it would be difficult to pursue peace talks if such "acts of terrorism are not controlled." In response Pakistan demanded that India supply proof to support its charges and offered to help in investigations into the blasts. Aziz said talks were the only way to resolve the nearly six decades of hostility between the nuclear-armed neighbours. "Let us talk and see what we can do to help each other," he said. After the bombings that also injured more than 800, the countries have traded barbs blaming each other for the impasse in the dialogue. Top foreign ministry officials from the two countries are now scheduled to meet in Bangladesh for the first time since the blasts on the sidelines of a South Asian forum on August 1. The peace process, begun after India and Pakistan came to the brink of a fourth war, has brought greater trade, transportation and people-to-people links. But there has been no breakthrough on their dispute over Kashmir, trigger of two of three wars between the neighbours since 1947. The Himalayan region is divided between the two but claimed in full by both. An Islamic separatist insurgency against New Delhi's rule in Indian Kashmir that began in 1989 has left more than 44,000 people dead by official count and at least double that number by the separatists' tally. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Nuclear Space Technology at Space-Travel.com
Israeli army chief taken to hospital for tests: report
Jerusalem (AFP) Jul 28, 2006 The Israeli army chief of staff, General Dan Halutz, fell ill Friday and was taken to hospital for tests, Channel 10 television reported. |
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