CIAO DATE: 11/03

Can India and Pakistan Seize the Moment?

Teresita C. Schaffer and Paul A. Longo

The South Asia Monitor
Number 60
July 01, 2003

The Center for Strategic and International Studies

 

Abstract

Two months after Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s offer to extend “the hand of friendship” to neighboring Pakistan, the two countries are exchanging ambassadors and have begun restoring transport links, but discussions on their underlying dispute have yet to take shape. The next few months provide a crucial opportunity to begin a serious peace effort. Should this window of time pass by without progress, however, internal politics in both countries may rule out another try for a year or two.

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