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| Pakistan, India Border Chiefs to Meet over Clashes |
| 2015-09-09 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] The border security chiefs from India and Pakistain will meet Wednesday in an attempt to settle months of festivities that have killed almost two dozen people. Tensions between the two arch-rivals have been high since the cancellation of bilateral security talks last month and with both countries celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1965 war which they both claimed victory in. Pakistain's top security and foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in goodjihadis and badjihadis as a matter of national policy... said he hoped the meeting between the two border forces could reduce the festivities and shelling which have killed more than a dozen civilians, according to media reports from both sides. But he also accused India of taking an aggressive stance towards Pakistain. "[Indian Prime Minister] Narendra Modi contested elections on an anti-Pakistain platform and now wants to dictate terms for the dialogue with Pakistain but we will never accept this and we have already conveyed it to New Delhi," Aziz told news hounds Tuesday. He also responded to comments by an Indian minister about exploring the possibility of covert operations to take out "Pakistain-based terrorists", warning that Pakistain would respond in the same manner to such an event. The current border festivities, which began in July, have mainly focused on the Line of Control which separates the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmire, which both countries partially hold. |
| Posted by:Fred |