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To: JPR who wrote (7025)	9/21/1999 9:13:00 AM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

dawn.com. WASHINGTON, Sept 20: Pakistan has been quietly told by the US in back-channel diplomacy to sign the CTBT conditionally, with a provision to restart nuclear testing if India does so, knowledgeable sources revealed on Monday. Pray to GANESH aka Washington to remove obstacles for IMF money Shahbaz Sharif is trying to reach some agreement on how to appease the Clinton administration so that Washington does not put obstacles to the release of the vital $280 million tranche by the IMF in the next few days, something which could spell disaster for the Nawaz Sharif government and Pakistan as a whole US senator DODD dodges PAKI ZAKI Listen friends, US wants PAKIS to disown Taliban and renounce CROSS-BORDER TERRORISM, before Washington is receptive to PAKIS Shahbaz, NO SHAHBAZ NOW, TRY HARDER In response to these moves, all that Pakistan has done is to start the back-channel diplomacy through Shahbaz Sharif while officially Senator Akram Zaki has been trying to find his way in the maze of US Capitol Hill politics. The sources said that apart from a couple of Pakistan-friendly congressmen, the senator had not been able to see anyone on the Hill who could actually make any difference for Pakistan in the upcoming legislative battles. "Zaki was refused even a meeting by important Senator Chris Dodd, who is not even known as sympathetic to India," the sources revealed. The Zaki mission has been such a failure that in almost 10 days in Washington he did not meet Pakistani newsmen for the fear that he may be asked some searching questions to which he obviously had no answers. The embassy did not even venture to give out the list of people Zaki saw during his stay in Washington.

To: JPR who wrote (7025)	9/21/1999 5:23:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

The Indian Govt's view on this: You can take the horse to a water hole, but U can't make it drink Well, if that really is the Indian government's view (and it definitely looks like it is), there really can be no peaceful solution. You can take that to the bank! Excerpts from an article : " Yet, to say that India?s tricolour must flutter over Kashmir to prevent India's breakup is to place territory before people. IT IS WORTH ASKING WHAT IS IT ABOUT INDIA THAT 52 YEARS AFTER INDEPENDENCE THERE REMAIN VAST SEGMENTS OF INDIANS WHO WOULD RATHER LIVE SEPARATE LIVES. Certainly part of that answer lies in the fact that New Delhi and the Indian ruling establishment placed territory before people. In the bargain, we lost the people and the territory has been under threat." .... "If neglected people do not seek a separate destiny, what else will they desire? AND IT IS WORTH ASKING HOW LONG CAN INDIA TOLERATE SUCH A SITUATION OF KEEPING WITH IT, PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO DESIRE TO BE PART OF IT SIMPLY THROUGH OVERWHELMING FORCE. Personally, I do not know how many years, but I know it cannot be forever." ... " As we enter the new millennium, let us place the value of humans over any notion of borders and territories. Let the people themselves vote to be a part of the nation, rather than be forced to be part of a nation. It is difficult but not impossible. One cannot and should not seek to keep Kashmir only because we fear the break up of India or of trouble breaking out. Such an argument is wrong (morally and even on the basis of realpolitik) and only means that Indian nationhood is extremely fragile..."