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| State Department advises Americans to leave India |
| 2002-05-31 |
| The State Department on Friday advised all but essential American diplomats and about 60,000 Americans to leave India because of rising danger of conflict between that nation and Pakistan. "Tensions have risen to serious levels" and conflict between India and Pakistan cannot be ruled out, the State Department said. About 60,000 U.S. citizens in India also were urged to depart. "Conditions along India's border with Pakistan and in the state of Jammu and Kashmir have deteriorated," the State Department said in its travel warning. Dependents of nonessential U.S. personnel in the embassy in New Delhi and U.S. consulates in Calcutta, Mumbai and Chennai also were encouraged to depart at U.S. government expense. They're that close to the wire... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |