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December

• U-S-INDIA-PAK VOA 31 Dec 2001-- The Bush administration is welcoming Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's crackdown on the two Pakistan-based Kashmiri militant groups blamed by India for the December 13th terrorist attack on the Indian parliament. U-S officials are continuing telephone diplomacy in the South Asian crisis while expressing hope tensions may be easing
• INDIAN AMBASSADOR VOA 30 Dec 2001-- The Indian Ambassador to the United States, says Indian troops are on the Pakistani border to exercise a diplomatic option not to start a war.
• U-S INDIA PAKISTAN VOA 30 Dec 2001-- The escalating tensions between India and Pakistan on were display when officials of the two countries took part in back-to-back interviews on American television
• Transcript: Powell Speaks Dec 28 With Indian And Pakistani Leaders Washington File 28 Dec 2002-- Reeker: As the President noted in his remarks from Crawford, the Secretary stressed the need for calm and restraint, urging a lessening of tensions between India and Pakistan. We expect both countries to continue to act responsibly in order to avoid a conflict. And, as we've been saying, they need to resolve their differences through dialogue.
• BRITAIN/INDIA/PAKISTAN VOA 28 Dec 2001-- Britain is calling on Pakistan to do more to crack down on Kashmiri militants, in order to ease rising tensions with India
• INDIA / PAKISTAN VOA 27 Dec 2001-- Indian and Pakistani forces exchanged machinegun and mortar fire again on Tuesday, as the standoff on their common border continues
• US / INDIA-PAK VOA 26 Dec 2001-- The United States is calling for restraint by India and Pakistan, which have exchanged gunfire and built up forces along their border in a crisis sparked by the terror attack on the Indian parliament two weeks ago. Secretary of State Colin Powell made telephone appeals to both sides Wednesday
• INDIA/PAKISTAN VOA 25 Dec 2001-- Indian and Pakistani forces exchanged machinegun and mortar fire again on Tuesday, as the standoff on their common border continues
• INDIA/PAKISTAN VOA 23 Dec 2001-- India says two paramilitary soldiers have been killed and three others injured in a border clash between Indian and Pakistani troops
• INDIA / PARLIAMENT VOA 18 Dec 2001-- India has blamed Pakistan for sponsoring Muslim separatist groups which New Delhi says carried out last week's suicide attack on parliament

  November

  October

  September

• Text: Ambassador Blackwill on Shared US-India National Interests Washington File 06 Sept 2001-- U.S. Ambassador to India Robert Blackwill said the Bush Administration plans to work "more intensely than ever before" on a broad range of shared national interests between the US and India.
• Text: Blackwill on US-India Collaboration on International Issues Washington File 04 Sept 2001-- U.S. Ambassador to India Robert Blackwill said the Bush administration seeks to intensify collaboration with India on a broad range of issues confronting the international community.
• Washington File 03 Sept 2001-- Indian defense ministry officials are exploring ways of eliminating corruption in defense deals
• INDIA / DEFENSE VOA 27 Aug 2001-- Indian defense ministry officials are exploring ways of eliminating corruption in defense deals.
• INDIA/ KASHMIR VOA 24 Aug 2001-- In Indian Kashmir, six policemen and one civilian were killed in an overnight attack Friday by suspected Muslim militants

  August

• INDIA/SECURITY VOA 12 Aug 2001-- Security has been tightened in the Indian capital following a crude bomb explosion.
• INDIA/U-S/TRADE VOA 10 Aug 2001-- U-S Trade Representative Robert Zoellick is urging Indian officials to set aside their reservations about a new round of global trade talks and join the process
• INDIA/KASHMIR VOA 09 Aug 2001-- Indian authorities have announced measures intended to improve security and combat violence in Kashmir
• INDIA / KASHMIR VOA 08 Aug 2001-- Indian authorities say three separatist militants and a boy were killed in Indian-administered Kashmir Wednesday, during an operation to rescue about a dozen young people who Indian troops say were being forcibly taken to Pakistan. The incident occurred as Indian authorities clamped an indefinite curfew on Jammu, Kashmir's winter capital, following the deaths of 11 people Tuesday night in a guerrilla attack on the city's railway station
• INDIA / PAKISTAN VOA 07 Aug 2001-- India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has given his most lengthy statement to date on last month's Agra Summit between New Delhi and Islamabad
• KASHMIR ATTACK VOA 07 Aug 2001-- At least 10 people were killed and 30 others left injured after separatist militants attacked a railway station in India's state of Jammu and Kashmir
• INDIA / KASHMIR VOA 04 Aug 2001-- Authorities in Indian Kashmir say separatist Muslim militants have killed at least 15 Hindu villagers and injured five

  July

• INDIA / PAKISTAN / KASHMIR VOA 25 Jul 2001-- Earlier this month, a summit meeting between the leaders of India and Pakistan ended in acrimony, with each side blaming the other for failing to agree on a joint statement at the end of two days of meetings in Agra, India. Dominating the summit agenda was the issue of Kashmir -- a territory which is divided between India and Pakistan and which both countries claim
• INDIA / PAKISTAN / KASHMIR VOA 25 Jul 2001-- Earlier this month, a summit meeting between the leaders of India and Pakistan ended in acrimony, with each side blaming the other for failing to agree on a joint statement at the end of two days of meetings in Agra, India. Dominating the summit agenda was the issue of Kashmir -- a territory which is divided between India and Pakistan and which both countries claim
• INDIA / KASHMIR VOA 21 Jul 2001-- At least 12 people have been killed and 15 injured in an attack by suspected Islamic militants on Hindu pilgrims in Indian Kashmir
• INDIA/PAKISTAN VOA 20 Jul 2001-- India's foreign minister has accepted an invitation to visit Islamabad, days after an India-Pakistan summit ended in a stalemate
• DESPITE AGRA 'FAILURE', MEDIA RELIEVED THAT LEADERS MET/WILL MEET AGAIN Foreign Media Reaction 19 Jul 2001-- The "failed" summit meetings between Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee and Pakistani President Musharraf generated reams of commentary, mostly from the Indian Subcontinent
• INDIA / U-S / DEFENSE VOA 19 Jul 2001-- The chairman of the U-S Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Henry Shelton, is in New Delhi to meet with senior Indian officials
• PAK/INDIA SUMMIT-REACTION VOA 17 Jul 2001-- A meeting of leaders of India and Pakistan in the Indian city of Agra has ended without an agreement. For most observers in Pakistan the outcome of the meeting between Pakistani leader General Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was not unexpected. But they are hoping the process of dialogue should continue to ease tensions between the two countries, who have fought three wars in their 54-years of confrontation over the Himalayan region of Kashmir
• INDIA / PAKISTAN / SUMMIT VOA 17 Jul 2001-- India's foreign minister says the lack of an agreement at the Agra summit does not mean relations between India and Pakistan are worse than they were before the summit
• U-S-INDIA-PAKISTAN VOA 17 Jul 2001-- Here in Washington, Bush administration officials are describing the India-Pakistan summit as an important step forward, even if there was no agreement on the critical issue of Kashmir
• INDIA/KASHMIR VOA 16 Jul 2001-- In Indian Kashmir, at least five soldiers have been killed and more than a dozen others injured in heavy clashes between Muslim militants and Indian soldiers
• INDIA-PAKISTAN SUMMIT VOA 15 Jul 2001-- The leaders of India and Pakistan have held a series of - relaxed, constructive, and cordial - meetings in the northern Indian town of Agra
• INDIA / PAKISTAN / SUMMIT VOA 15 Jul 2001-- A summit meeting between the leaders of South Asian rivals India and Pakistan is underway in the northern Indian city of Agra. There is no set agenda, but the disputed territory of Kashmir is expected to dominate the discussions
• INDIA / PAK SUMMIT VOA 13 Jul 2001-- Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf arrives in New Delhi Saturday for a summit meeting with Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee
• INDIA / PAKISTAN SUMMIT ARRIVAL VOA 13 Jul 2001-- Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf has arrived in New Delhi for a visit that will culminate with a series of meetings with Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee
• INDIA / PAKISTAN / SUMMIT VOA 13 Jul 2001-- The leaders of India and Pakistan will have a get-acquainted session a few hours from now (Eds. at about 1200 UTC Saturday) in preparation for a summit that begins Sunday in Agra, the north Indian city that is home of the legendary Taj Mahal. Both sides are playing down expectations for the summit, especially on the issue of Kashmir
• INDIA / KASHMIR / SUMMIT VOA 12 Jul 2001-- The leaders of India and Pakistan will meet in New Delhi Saturday in preparation for a formal summit that begins the following day in Agra -- home of the Taj Mahal. The meetings are expected to address some of the contentious issues that have led the South Asian rivals to three wars since they gained independence in 1947. A formal summit agenda has not been announced, but the disputed territory of Kashmir is certain to occupy most of the discussions
• INDIA / PAKISTAN / SUMMIT VOA 12 Jul 2001-- India says it will discuss the disputed territory of Kashmir when the leaders of India and Pakistan meet at a summit in India in a few days time
• INDIA/PAK - LOC VOA 12 Jul 2001-- Thousands of people live along the Line of Control that divides Kashmir - the mountainous region that is expected to be the focus of the upcoming summit between India and Pakistan. Troops from those two countries have eyed each other suspiciously across the line for half a century, and periodic clashes have caught civilian residents in the line of fire.
• INDIA / PAK SUMMIT VOA 11 Jul 2001-- Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has said the disputed region of Kashmir should be the main focus of his summit meeting with Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Sunday
• PAK / INDIA SUMMIT VOA 10 Jul 2001-- India has announced a series of confidence-building measures ahead of a summit meeting between Indian and Pakistani leaders on Sunday. But Pakistan has shown little excitement over the moves, saying it is determined to keep the focus of the summit on the dispute over Kashmir
• PAK/INDIA SUMMIT VOA 09 Jul 2001-- Leaders of India and Pakistan are meeting in the Indian city of Agra next week to discuss their long-running conflict over the divided region of Kashmir
• PAK/INDIA VOA 06 Jul 2001-- Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf says Pakistan's long-standing conflict with India over Kashmir has to be settled before commercial, trade and cultural links are established between the two nations
• PAK / INDIA SUMMIT VOA 06 Jul 2001-- Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf, hopes to meet Kashmiri separatist leaders later this month when he visits New Delhi. India staunchly opposes such meetings, and says the separatists have no role to play at General Musharraf's talks with Indian leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• PAK/INDIA ACTIVIST VOA 04 Jul 2001-- Pakistan's military government has released an Indian peace activist, who was arrested earlier this year when he entered the country from Afghanistan by bicycle. The government called the activist's release a goodwill gesture ahead of next week's summit with India

  June

  May

• India/US/Missiles, Voice of America, 11 May 2001 -- Indian officials have welcomed Washington's plans for a new international security system, although they have not specifically endorsed American proposals to build a missile defense shield.

  April

• India / Space Launch, Voice of America, 18 April 2001 -- India has successfully launched a new rocket carrying an experimental satellite into orbit.

  March

• In Delhi, Annan stresses importance of India-Pakistan dialogue on Kashmir, UN News, 15 March 2001 -- Arriving in New Delhi today on an official visit, Secretary-General Kofi Annan stressed the importance for Pakistan and India to resume a dialogue on Kashmir, as well as sign the landmark Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).
• Russia Ready To Sell India Nuclear Submarine, RFE/RL Newsline, Vol. 5, No. 44, Part I, 5 March 2001 -- The deputy director of "Rosoboroneksport", Viktor Komarin told "Vremya Novostei" on 15 February that Russia is ready to sell the Indian navy a Russian-built nuclear submarine
• India / Kashmir attack, Voice of America, 02 March 2001 -- An ambush in Indian-administered Kashmir has killed at least 15 Indian policemen and wounded nine others.

  February

• India ceasefire extension, Voice of America, 22 February 2001 -- India has extended a unilateral cease-fire in Indian-administered Kashmir until the end of May.
• India - Kashmir, Voice of America, 23 February 2001 -- Five policemen and one civilian have been killed and two other people seriously injured by suspected Muslim militants in Indian Kashmir.
• India Kashmir Update, Voice of America, 18 February 2001 -- India's government has postponed a decision on whether to extend its nearly three-month unilateral ceasefire in Kashmir.
• India/Kashmir, Voice of America, 10 February 2001 -- In Indian Kashmir's capital city Srinagar, government commandos have regained control of the police headquarters that was stormed by Muslim separatists.
• Pak-India-Kashmir, Voice of America, 04 February 2001 -- Pakistan says tensions with India have eased because of recent confidence building moves by both governments in the disputed Kashmir region.

  January

• Pak/India/Kashmir, Voice of America, 20 January 2001 -- Pakistan is accusing India of threatening a new peace process aimed at resolving the Kashmir dispute by refusing to issue travel documents to separatist Kashmiri leaders to visit Pakistan.
• Kashmir Violence, Voice of America, 18 January 2001 -- Five Indian soldiers and one civilian were killed Thursday, in two

  separate landmine explosions in Indian-administered Kashmir.

• India Test-fires Intermediate Missile, People's Daily, 17 January 2001 -- The missile, named Agni-III, was test-fired at 10:11 a.m. local time (0511 GMT)
• Kashmir attack, Voice of America, 16 January 2001 -- Separatist militants have attacked the main airport in Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu and Kashmir state.
• Kashmir Elections, Voice of America, 15 January 2001 -- Local elections are being held in Indian Kashmir for the first time

  in more than two decades.

• India / Kashmir, Voice of America, 04 January 2001 -- The relative, month-long calm on the Kashmir border has been broken, with clashes erupting between Indian and Pakistani troops.