Posted on 04/17/2005 7:04:09 AM PDT by aculeus
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is in New Delhi today to attend an India-Pakistan cricket match.
Weightier matters, however, have been on his agenda since arriving in the Indian capital -- moving the peace process forward over Kashmir's future chief among them. Making Kashmir's embattled residents central to the search for peace is the best route toward a durable solution to an issue that three times has embroiled these nuclear powers in war.
There has been a series of transformational events in South Asia in the last month in the run-up to Mr. Musharraf's cricket tour that makes peace genuinely attainable. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to the region in mid-March sparked a major policy shift in Washington when the Bush administration announced it would sell non-nuclear capable F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan and make available to India advanced F-18s and other strategic military assets.
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