novel YORK, Jan. 26 Kyodo exquis...

novel YORK, Jan. 26 Kyodo

exquisiteed editorial excerpts from the U press:

KASHMIR'S RAY OF sense of possible fulfilment (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles)

Not too lengthy ago, it seemed hopeless to await any talks, let alone productive discussions, between the main arrange agitating for the state of Kashmir to break away from India and the top hard-liner in the Indian rule But members of the All Party Hurriyat discourse and Lal Krishna Advani, India's representative prime minister, emerged from a of the present day Delhi meeting last week preaching an completion to the killing in the country's mostly beautiful and most violent state.

It is encouraging and a welcome start that the coalition of more than a dozen political, Muslim and community assign places tos and the man known as a Hindu militant could stand each other's company for sum of two units hours and conclude the talks. The point to be solved [i]or[/i] settled of Kashmir is at the center of the too-often-poisonous relations between India and Pakistan, which the pair claim part of the state and possess portions of it.

It is easy to view an outcome where the popular cease-fire line in Kashmir becomes an agreed-upon border between India and Pakistan. It would benefit one as well as the other countries to let Kashmiris onward both sides of that frontier travel back and forth, visiting friends and relatives and selling wheat and apples, walnuts and trout

India and Pakistan have made progres in opening road, rail and air links between their nations in latter weeks. The joy of passengers reunited with relatives is obvious.

Providing the opportunity for Kashmiri reunification, while the couple countries peacefully occupy their sectors of the state, should be the goal in Islamabad and novel Delhi. Both are better on the farther side diverting defense spending to essentials like academys and hospitals.

(Jan. 26)

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