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India: peace talks 'dependent' on Pakistan reining in Kashmir rebels NEW DELHI, Sunday (AFP) India said future peace talks between it and Pakistan hinge on Islamabad keeping its vow not to allow soil under its control to be used by Islamic rebels battling Indian rule in Kashmir. "We remain committed to deepening our engagement" with Pakistan, Foreign Minister Natwar Singh told a media conference in New Delhi attended by a delegation of Pakistani journalists. "However, the whole process is critically dependent on fulfillment of President Pervez Musharraf's reassurance of January 6, 2004 not to permit any territory under Pakistan's control to support terrorism in any manner," he said, according to the Press Trust of India news agency. "Now there is a distinct change in attitude among people, political leadership and information makers... in India and Pakistan which is welcome," Singh said. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in a message to the two-day conference of the South Asian Free Media Association that, "Creating a neighbourhood of peace and stability is a high priority of our government." Noting South Asia remains one of the world's poorer regions, he said, "Our individual and collective struggle to march forward on the road to development has been impaired by weak intra-regional cooperation compounded by mutual suspicion." |
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