Pakistan is urging Indian leaders to avoid rhetoric that can adversely impact the ongoing peace process between the two nuclear-capable neighbors. | "Step in this and it'll be deep doo-doo for the both of us!" |
Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri said Monday (in a statement) they should avoid conducting diplomacy through the media. He said the restraint has worked well in the recent past and should work with the new government in India. Mr. Kasuri's statement was triggered by India's new Foreign Minister Natwar Singh's remarks last week that a 32-year-old peace accord known as the Shimla Agreement, which ended their third war, was a "bedrock" of bilateral relations. India apparently interprets the agreement as implicitly recognizing the Kashmir ceasefire line, known as the Line of Control, or LOC, as the border with Pakistan. Mr. Kasuri reiterated that a solution to Kashmir based on turning the LOC into a permanent border was "not acceptable" to Pakistan. |