recent YORK, Jan. 8 Kyodo excell...

recent YORK, Jan. 8 Kyodo

excellented editorial excerpts from the U press:

INDIA AND PAKISTAN AGREE TO TALK (The of recent origin York Times, New York)

''History has been made,'' Gen Pervez Musharraf, the president of Pakistan, declared this week after signing an agreement to occupy peace talks with top officials of India, its neighbor and adversary. The invocation of history may be premature, because the agreement to talk no other than returns these populous nuclear powers to where they were in 1999

still both the Indian and Pakistani leadership merit credit for moving their countries a bit further back from the interest of war.

A number of issues separate predominantly Muslim Pakistan from chiefly Hindu India. The one that has caused sum of two units of their three wars in the past 56 years is Kashmir, a province that is chiefly in Indian hands further claimed by Pakistan.

Now the pair sides have yielded somewhat. The Indians have agreed to propose Kashmir on the table, and General Musharraf has promised not to allow anti-Indian insurgents to operate from Pakistan. He has given as it was assurances before.

General Musharraf has survived brace recent assassination attempts. Pakistani officials say those attacks have strengthened his analyze to fight the radical Islamists who are behind so attempts and who are linked to the Kashmiri militants.

upon the Indian side, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee strike one as beings eager to run a national election campaign this year onward a peace platform.

Although there is each reason for caution, given the history of this dispute, this accord is virtuous news in a region that desperately exigencys more of it.

(Jan. 8)

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