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India-Pak talks fan hopes for bus across Kashmir ISLAMABAD, Tuesday (Reuters) Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh was due to arrive in Islamabad later on Tuesday for talks with Pakistani leaders amid hopes they will agree on starting a long-awaited bus service across divided Kashmir. The peace process that South Asia's two nuclear rivals began a year ago has flagged of late. Relations have cooled following a row over India constructing a dam that Pakistan says will reduce the flow of water on its side of the border. No one expects Singh's three-day visit to result in any fast strategy for settling the core dispute over the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir, the cause of two of the countries' three wars. But some key confidence building measures could bear fruit. The Indian Express newspaper reported on Tuesday that New Delhi had dropped insistence that passengers on the proposed bus service carry passports - something Pakistan objected to as it could be regarded as recognising the ceasefire line dividing Kashmir into Indian and Pakistani sectors as a border. |
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