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| India's Singh Plays Down Possibility of War With Pakistan |
| 2008-12-24 |
| Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tried to allay fears on Tuesday about the possibility of war with neighboring Pakistan, saying "nobody wants war." Singh's comments came amid rising calls in India for military action, and a day after the Pakistani air force conducted war training exercises with fighter jets above Pakistan's major cities. "The issue is not war. The issue is terror and the territory in Pakistan being used to provoke, to aid and abet terrorism. Nobody wants war," Singh told reporters outside Parliament. He said India wanted Pakistan to "dismantle the terror machine" and added that Islamabad "knows what that implies." The two nuclear-armed neighbors have traded angry rhetoric since India accused "elements" in Pakistan of planning the three-day siege in Mumbai last month that left at least 170 people dead, including six Americans, and injured more than 230. The gunmen arrived in Mumbai by boat and attacked a restaurant, two luxury hotels, a train station and a Jewish prayer center. |
| Posted by:Fred |