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May 2002 - India Special Weapons News

  • India-Pakistan Situation Is Bush Administration's 'Highest Priority' 31 May 2002-- Preventing a war on the Indian subcontinent is the Bush administration's "highest priority," Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said here today
  • Powell Warns Against Military Action by India, Pakistan Washington File 31 May 2002-- In a May 31 interview with BBC News, Secretary of State Colin Powell warned that Indian military action against Pakistan would not yield a permanent result to the problem of terrorist infiltration into Kashmir.
  • Powell Says Kashmir Crisis "Need Not Result in War" Washington File 31 May 2002-- Secretary of State Colin Powell repeated U.S. calls for Pakistan to prevent infiltration activities into Kashmir, for India to exercise restraint, and for both to consider the consequences of taking military action.
  • RUMSFELD/INDIA-PAKISTAN VOA 30 May 2002-- U-S Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will visit India and Pakistan next week on a trip that underscores the Bush administration's concerns over the mounting tensions between the two South Asian countries
  • INDIA ATTACK VOA 30 May 2002-- Two policeman and a civilian were killed by suspected separatist militants in an attack against a police post in Indian Kashmir
  • State-India-Pakistan VOA 30 May 2002-- State Department officials say a decision is near on the possible evacuation of non-essential personnel and dependents from U-S diplomatic posts in India because of the danger of a South Asian war. A similar evacuation of U-S personnel from Pakistan was ordered in March
  • Bush Sending Rumsfeld to Meet Leaders in India, Pakistan 30 May 2002-- President Bush announced today that he plans to send Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to India and Pakistan "early next week."
  • White House Report: India/Pakistan, the Middle East Washington File 30 May 2002-- "The European Union has sent officials into the area. Jack Straw of Great Britain has just returned from the area. The Deputy Secretary of State (Richard) Armitage will be heading to the area. And then Secretary Rumsfeld will be heading there, as well. All of these visits are part of the international community's ongoing diplomacy to work with India and Pakistan to reduce the tensions in the area and to convince both parties that war does not serve either of their interests," the Press Secretary said.
  • LANDMINES / INDIA-PAKISTAN VOA 29 May 2002-- The border between India and Pakistan is considered one of the most densely mined in the world - and more mines are reportedly being laid every day. At a news conference in Geneva (Wednesday), opponents of landmines said that since the end of last year both countries have been engaged in one of the largest mine-laying operations ever
  • INDIA / PAKISTAN / KASHMIR FEUD VOA 29 May 2002-- The disputed territory of the province of predominantly Muslim Jammu and Kashmir has been the source of two wars between India and Pakistan during the past forty years.
  • U-S-INDIA-PAKISTAN VOA 29 May 2002-- The United States is intensifying its warnings about the danger of war between India and Pakistan. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage leaves next week on a trouble-shooting mission to South Asia
  • INDIA / PAKISTAN VOA 29 May 2002-- India has stepped up its criticism of Pakistan, saying President Pervez Musharraf has been given enough time to halt the infiltration of Islamic militants into Indian Kashmir.
  • KASHMIR: CROSS-BORDER INFILTRATION COULD BE 'TRIPWIRE TO WAR' FMR 29 May 2002-- Writers the world over warned the South Asian adversaries against "the dangerous assumption" that it is feasible to limit war between nuclear powers to conventional weapons. Even as Indian editorialists called on their government to "do something" in retaliation for the "barbaric massacre" of military dependents in Jammu May 14, most urged PM Vajpayee to exhaust India's diplomatic and economic options before launching any strikes across the LoC. Assuming that it would be up to New Delhi to initiate a war between the subcontinental rivals, Pakistani writers put the international community on notice that "a nuclear war might start if India is not stopped right now" and that "the effects of this war will...engulf the entire world." Despite the lamentable timing and strategic ramifications of last weekend's Pakistani missile tests, the media in neither country viewed them as casus belli.
  • PENTAGON/INDIA-PAKISTAN VOA 28 May 2002-- Top U-S defense officials are worried tensions between India and Pakistan could affect Pakistan's help in searching for al-Qaida terrorists who have fled from Afghanistan
  • NATO / RUSSIA / SOUTH ASIA VOA 28 May 2002-- The leaders of NATO's 19 member nations and Russia are urging India and Pakistan to pull back from the brink of war and resolve their differences over Kashmir peacefully
  • INDIA / PAKISTAN VOA 28 May 2002-- India's Foreign Minister says his country will reciprocate if it becomes clear that Pakistan is taking steps to end what he calls cross-border terrorism in Indian-administered Kashmir
  • Pakistan-India Conflict Concerns U.S. Military AFPS 28 May 2002-- U.S. defense officials are concerned that, because of growing tensions between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, authorities in Pakistan may divert troops from the tribal border area with Afghanistan, where al Qaeda and Taliban forces may be hiding.
  • INDIA / PAKISTAN VOA 28 May 2002-- India's defense minister has dismissed pledges by Pakistan not to allow its territory to be used for terrorist attacks against Indian-administered Kashmir. India's foreign minister will give an official response to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's Monday speech, later today
  • INDIA/PAKISTAN VOA 26 May 2002-- Tensions between India and Pakistan continue to run high as India's prime minister says the country's patience with Pakistan has run out
  • Transcript: Bush, Putin at Hermitage, State Concern over India-Pakistan Washington File 25 May 2002-- Bush: We're deeply concerned about the rhetoric. It is very important for President Musharraf to stop -- do what he said he's going to do to in his speech on terror, and that is stop the incursions across the line -- the line of control. It's important that the Indians know that he is going to fulfill that promise.
  • BUSH/RUSSIA/SOUTH ASIA VOA 25 May 2002-- A day after signing a landmark arms reduction treaty, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin are focusing on cutting tensions in South Asia



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