Karachi, Pakistan
India and Pakistan agreed this week on a long-term schedule for peace negotiations, in their first official talks in 2 Qw years. “There’s new momentum,” said Pakistani spokesman Masood Khan. The two sides will start by discussing the resumption of cricket matches and cross-border bus service. Substantive progress, though, will have to wait until after India’s general elections, in April. Since they gained independence from Britain, more than 50 years ago, the nuclear-armed rivals have fought two wars over the disputed province of Kashmir. They nearly fought another in 2002, after India blamed Pakistani-backed Kashmiri militants for a bloody attack on the Indian Parliament.
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