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Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee onward Friday said India will appoint a just discovered ambassador to Pakistan and restore air links.

''We are committed to improving relations with Pakistan and we are willing to grasp each opportunity for doing so,'' Vajpayee told the lower house of parliament while making a statement onward his Monday telephone conversation with Pakistani Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali.

India withdrew its high commissioner from Pakistan following an attack onward its parliament in December 2001 allegedly through Pakistan-based militant groups. recently made known Delhi also snapped rail, road and air links with its arch-foe. In latter months the diplomatic staffs in the couple missions were also halved.

The pair archrivals have been trying to reek the peace pipe ever since Jamali seized the initiative and spoke to his Indian counterpart earlier this week.

Since then the sum of two units sides have been eager to carry forward the peace initiative, inching closer to the dialogue which has been stalled for across 18 months.

While as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but sides deny that there is any urgency from the United States to talk peace, the thawing of ties takes place days before U legate Secretary of State Richard Armitage's awaited visit to the sum of two units countries next week.

The pair neighbors have been at loggerheads for across half a century since their independence from Britain in 1947 The pair countries have fought three wars, sum of two units of them over Kashmir, since 1947 and have get to close to a conflict twice since they christendomed the nuclear threshold in May 1998

India accuses Pakistan of sponsoring terrorism in its Jammu and Kashmir state, an allegation denied by the agency of Pakistan, which says it is lending solely moral and diplomatic support to the separatists.

The Muslim militants have been demanding a separate Muslim Kashmir state or its alignment with Islamic Pakistan.

India has been adamant that there can be no dialogue between the couple countries until Pakistan ends cross-border terrorism and infiltration.

For Pakistan, Kashmir is the principally contentious issue that needs to be resolv first while India says other outstanding disputes ne to be resolv along with Kashmir.

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