Kashmir Vital for Regional Peace: Zardari, Reuters India, 5 January 2010
EXCERPT: "The settlement of a dispute between Pakistan and India over Kashmir is vital for regional peace, Pakistan's president said on Tuesday as his government faces growing pressure to combat militancy. . . President Asif Ali Zardari said regional peace was inextricably linked to the settlement of the decades-old dispute over the Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir which both Pakistan and India claim in full but rule in part. 'As world attention is on Pakistan, then together with Pakistan, the world has to talk about the Kashmir problem as well because only then can peace be brought to the region,' Zardari said in an address to Pakistani Kashmir's legislature. 'We cannot delink regional peace from peace in Kashmir ... we have highlighted this thinking in the world and will keep projecting it.' . . . While India and Afghanistan accuse Pakistan of backing rebels fighting the Indian and Afghan governments, Pakistan says India and Afghanistan are helping separatist rebels in Pakistan's gas-rich Baluchistan province."
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