Clinton for India, Pak to resolve their differences

Lalit K Jha

Washington, Oct 28 (PTI) US feels it is important for
India and Pakistan to resolve their differences by developing
more trust and more confidence-building measures, Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday.

On her maiden visit to Pakistan after assuming office,
Clinton said the Obama administration believes the most
durable possible outcomes of any kind of resolution or
normalisation can only come from the two countries themselves.
She said the two countries had already made a start by
developing more trust, more confidence-building measures and
working towards resolving bilateral differences.
"There was some very good work done in the last several
years which we encouraged and we watched with admiration – the
bus routes being open, for example," she said praising the
confidence building measures like Lahore Delhi Bus service.
"So we are going to encourage and hope that we can see
that occurring again, because at the end of the day, my view
is that India and Pakistan have so much more to gain by
working through their very difficult relationship," she told
Geo TV of Pakistan in an interview given before her departure
to Islamabad.
But Clinton refused to make any comment on Pakistan's
charges about India's alleged involvement in Balochistan,
emphasising that it was very important to follow up on what
happened in Sharm el-Sheikh wherein the Prime Ministers of
both the countries met. PTI LKJ