Roundup: Restraint and Patience Needed in Solving Indo-Pak Disputes

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Roundup: Restraint and Patience Needed in Solving Indo-Pak Disputes

Tensions between Pakistan and India have been increasing in the last months. Troops have been massed by both countries along the Line of Control and the Working Boundary in Kashmir.

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Tensions between Pakistan and India have been increasing in the last months. Troops have been massed by both countries along the Line of Control and the Working Boundary in Kashmir.

The worsening situation sparked by a terrorist attack at the Indian Parliament building in New Delhi on December 13 last year and than by an attack at an Indian military camp and a bus in Indian-held Kashmir on May 14.

India accused Pakistan for backing terrorist activities in India, particularly for supporting and allowing terrorists to infiltrate into the Indian side along the Line of Control. On its part, Pakistan strongly condemned the two incidents and denied the Indian allegations.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on January 12, May 27 and may other occasions stressed that Pakistan is also a victim of terrorism, it does not allow anyone to use the Pakistani territory for terrorist activities in any part of the world and not allow anyone or group to carry out terrorist activities in the name of Kashmir within Pakistan. He announced that his government would take stringiest measures to crack down sectarism, extremism and terrorism, all for national security and not for pressure from the outside.

President Musharraf and his government have time and again denied any infiltration along the Line of Control, saying India should accept Pakistan's repeated proposal for strengthening the UNMOGIP (United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan) or posting of independent observers to monitor the Line of Control.

However, Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and other leaders are of the view that President Musharraf has not fulfilled his commitment, terming his May 27 speech as "disappointed".

The core in the Pak-Indian disputes is the Kashmir issue which is left by history.

Pakistan has always stated that the people, particularly the Muslims in Indian-held Kashmir are waging a freedom struggle for self determination and Pakistan gives political, moral and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri people and does not support any terrorist acts there. It also maintains that the Kashmir issue should be solved in accordance with the relevant resolutions passed by the U.N. Security Council and through tripartite dialogue with Pakistan, India and representatives of the Kashmiri people taking part in it. Pakistan welcomes mediation from the international community to help Pakistan and India to solve this core dispute between them.

However, on the Indian part, it maintains that Islamic militants trained in Pakistan have infiltrated into Indian-held Kashmir to carry out terrorist activities with various support from Pakistan. It demands Pakistan ban the infiltration and stop supporting to the militants. India stands that the Kashmir dispute should be solved in a bilateral way, that is by India and Pakistan only in accordance with the 1972 Simla Agreement and the 1999 Lahore Declaration without any involvement from third parties.

With the tensions between the two countries getting worse daily, the world community is trying its best diplomatically to avoid a break of military conflicts in the South Asian region. Leaders of

world major powers are making contacts with both Indian and Pakistani leaders, persuading them to keep patient and restrained as war is not a way to solve the complicate dispute. They are of

the unique view that India and Pakistan should have negotiations to solve all outstanding issues including the Kashmir one for the interest of both countries as well as the whole South Asian region.

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