4/20/2003

India offers to open talks with Pakistan so the two countries can settle their differences in a peaceful manner. Since both nations have nukes pointed at the others cities and they almost went to war again in 2001, this is a good thing. Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said, "If Pakistan says tomorrow that it will close down the terrorist camps in Pakistan, if it says this today, I will send a top Foreign Ministry official to Islamabad tomorrow to draw up a schedule for the talks," so whether these talks happen rests in the decision of Pakistani leadership. Seeing that Pakistan just rejected US criticism that it hasn't done enough to control terrorists going over the Kashmiri line of control to attack the Indian army, whether or not these talks happen is questionable.