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India ready to give Pakistan 'benefit of doubt'
[Pak Daily Times] India is prepared to give Pakistain"the benefit of the doubt" as the two countries strive for peace, Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid has said. India regularly accuses Pakistain's army of providing covering fire for armed rebels who cross the border and then mount attacks, and in an interview with The Australian newspaper published Monday, Khurshid admitted the relationship was fraught. "We talk to Pakistain periodically and in terms of personal gestures we receive great warmth," he said. "But the on-the-ground reality and the results of our meetings are very disappointing." However,a woman is only as old as she admits... with Prime Minister  Nawaz Sharif... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... last month vowing to go the "extra mile" to make peace with India, Khurshid said Delhi would take him at his word. "Pakistain has a lot of very, very difficult issues to deal with at home," he was quoted as saying. "Our view is that we should give them time, not at our cost, of course, but that we should give them the benefit of the doubt. "When Mr Nawaz Sharif says he wants peace and good relations with India, we take him at his word." But with recent shootings at the border among the heaviest since a ceasefire agreement in 2003, Khurshid pointed out that Pakistain has not yet followed through on its promise of top-level military meetings to sort out better arrangements in Kashmire. "If they can address the dismantling of the infrastructure of terrorism, that would be a good start," he told the newspaper. Posted by: Fred 2013-11-12 |
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