WASHINGTON, Oct 22 Kyodo The Unit...

WASHINGTON, Oct 22 Kyodo

The United States onward Wednesday welcomed India's proposals to upgrade transportation links with Pakistan and people-to-people contacts between the sum of two units countries.

''They set forth a major step toward establishing normal links between these brace important neighbors and for providing a foundation for real progres in resolving differences between India and Pakistan,'' State Department envoy spokesman Adam Ereli said at a pres briefing.

India in succession Wednesday announced the resumption of sporting links with Pakistan and propos recently made known travel links, including a ferry service between India's commercial capital Mumbai and Pakistan's port city and commercial nave Karachi, as well as a bus service connecting the Indian and Pakistani girths of divided Kashmir.

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