ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Two years after nuclear-armed India and Pakistan nearly went to war, their leaders agreed Tuesday to hold landmark peace talks next month on all topics, including the hot-button issue of Kashmir that lies at the heart of their half- century of mutual hatred and mistrust. I think the victory is for the world," Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared, though observers cautioned a lasting peace is far from assured.
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan - Pro-Taliban militants encouraged by tribal elders signed an agreement with Pakistan's government Saturday to ensure "permanent peace" in this volatile northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, intelligence officials said. Under the agreement, which is likely to be unveiled by the government next week, no militant will attack government officials or security forces. In return the army deployed in North Waziristan "will not carry out operations against them," an area intelligence official said.
HAVANA - Pakistan and India agreed Saturday to restart peace talks suspended since train bombings killed more than 200 people in Mumbai in July as part of a wave of attacks India blames on Pakistan- based militants. Describing their meeting as a breakthrough for peace, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed on Cabinet-level talks by their foreign secretaries. Mr. Singh also said he had accepted an invitation to travel to Pakistan to further the process.
NEW DELHI - India's prime minister met with Pakistan's president at the U.N. in New York and they agreed to boost a faltering peace process between the nuclear-armed neighbors, a joint statement said today. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari held discussions on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- India and Pakistan agreed Tuesday to a timetable for peace talks both sides hope will end a bitter history of enmity and mistrust, striking the deal at a closed-door meeting of diplomats at a mountain retreat not far from their disputed border region. The breakthrough signaled optimism that change was both realistic and possible only two years after the neighbors nearly went to war.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The leaders of India and Pakistan agreed Tuesday to begin formal talks aimed at ending more than a half- century of bloodshed and hostility, including their struggle over the divided Himalayan province of Kashmir. The talks come less than two years after both countries nearly went to war.
NEW DELHI - Reversing decades of U.S. policy, President [George W. Bush] ushered India into the world's exclusive nuclear club Thursday with a landmark agreement to share nuclear reactors, fuel and expertise with this energy-starved nation in return for its acceptance of international safeguards. Eight months in the making, the accord would end India's long isolation as a nuclear maverick that defied world appeals and developed nuclear weapons. India agreed to separate its tightly entwined nuclear industry _ declaring 14 reactors as commercial facilities and eight as military _ and to open the civilian side to international inspections for the first time. I'm trying to think differently, not stay stuck in the past," said Bush, who has made improving relations with India a goal of his a...
BHURBAN, Pakistan - Pakistan's election winners agreed to form a coalition government Sunday and promised that parliament would restore senior judges fired last year by President Pervez Musharraf in a bid to secure the U.S.-backed leader's continued rule. In the capital, Islamabad, police fired tear gas at protesters at the residence of the Supreme Court chief suspended by Musharraf one year earlier, a move that triggered the political turbulence still dogging Pakistan's return to democracy.
According to Harrison, the success in security has allowed success in development, with the completion of a Provincial Reconstruction Team funded road improvement project, opening the remote region to the rest of the province.
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