Unrest Marks Eve of Kashmir Talks
On the eve of a weekend summit between two arch-rivals, gun battles raged Friday in Kashmir and more than 1,000 Pakistani protesters demanded that India quit the bitterly disputed Himalayan region.
Billed as a historic event to open an era of peaceful negotiation, the two-day talks in Lahore begin today after Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee rides the inaugural trip of a cross-border bus service.
The first premier from either side to visit the other’s country in almost a decade, Vajpayee will hold wide-ranging talks with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Security was tightened in Lahore, the capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province.
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