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Negotiations Under Way to Improve Relations Between India, Pakistan
Aired May 08, 2003 - 06:07 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: India and Pakistan, two neighbors with nuclear weapons and a history of not getting along, are making efforts to improve relations, and the U.S. is helping them.
Our Islamabad bureau chief, Ash-Har Quraishi, joins us live from Pakistan by videophone to tell us more about that.
Good morning.
ASH-HAR QURAISHI, CNN ISLAMABAD BUREAU CHIEF: Good morning, Carol.
That's right. The U.S. deputy secretary of state, Richard Armitage, arrived here in Islamabad. He's been meeting with senior foreign ministry officials this morning. He's met with Pakistan's prime minister, Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, and at this hour he's scheduled to meet with the president, Pervez Musharraf.
Now, high on that agenda, obviously, is going to be U.S.-Pakistan bilateral relations, the war on terrorism and, of course, the thawing of relations between India and Pakistan in the last few weeks. Both of the leaders of India and Pakistan have put forth measures in the last few weeks to try and normalize relations.
Last week, India's prime minister put forth an initiative to restore diplomatic relations with Pakistan, and also to open aviation links that had been closed down because of the tension. Pakistan has matched that. This weekend, they initiated further measures to try and normalize these relations.
Now, they're still a long way from face-to-face negotiations, but the hope is here in Pakistan that the U.S. may be able to play some sort of a facilitative role in getting them back to the negotiating table. Pakistan says that it's welcoming any kind of mediation between the two countries. That's something that India is not willing to do at this (AUDIO GAP) be able to get some messages across the border to the Indian government and get them back to talk face-to-face and resolve the outstanding disputes, including what Pakistan calls is the core issue of Peshmir (ph).
Carol -- back to you.
COSTELLO: Ash-Har Quraishi reporting live from Pakistan this morning.
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Aired May 8, 2003 - 06:07 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: India and Pakistan, two neighbors with nuclear weapons and a history of not getting along, are making efforts to improve relations, and the U.S. is helping them.
Our Islamabad bureau chief, Ash-Har Quraishi, joins us live from Pakistan by videophone to tell us more about that.
Good morning.
ASH-HAR QURAISHI, CNN ISLAMABAD BUREAU CHIEF: Good morning, Carol.
That's right. The U.S. deputy secretary of state, Richard Armitage, arrived here in Islamabad. He's been meeting with senior foreign ministry officials this morning. He's met with Pakistan's prime minister, Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, and at this hour he's scheduled to meet with the president, Pervez Musharraf.
Now, high on that agenda, obviously, is going to be U.S.-Pakistan bilateral relations, the war on terrorism and, of course, the thawing of relations between India and Pakistan in the last few weeks. Both of the leaders of India and Pakistan have put forth measures in the last few weeks to try and normalize relations.
Last week, India's prime minister put forth an initiative to restore diplomatic relations with Pakistan, and also to open aviation links that had been closed down because of the tension. Pakistan has matched that. This weekend, they initiated further measures to try and normalize these relations.
Now, they're still a long way from face-to-face negotiations, but the hope is here in Pakistan that the U.S. may be able to play some sort of a facilitative role in getting them back to the negotiating table. Pakistan says that it's welcoming any kind of mediation between the two countries. That's something that India is not willing to do at this (AUDIO GAP) be able to get some messages across the border to the Indian government and get them back to talk face-to-face and resolve the outstanding disputes, including what Pakistan calls is the core issue of Peshmir (ph).
Carol -- back to you.
COSTELLO: Ash-Har Quraishi reporting live from Pakistan this morning.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.
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