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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (9366)	11/5/1999 8:11:00 AM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Mohan: George, What is his name? George fumbled and failed It is Mushhead, man George Bush, your Governor was asked about Pakistan and the leader. Bush knew that he took over the Govt recently. Asked what his name was. GEORGE DIDN'T KNOW THE NAME OF MUSHHEAD, I MEAN MUSHARAFF. That is the extent of interest Bush has on South Asia. The party officials explained that he doesn't have to know the name of everybody or some such thing. That is the amount of interest and knowledge, the people have on a nuclear country, namely pakistan. How could you trust the country with people like this? I think they get a little history and a profile of the man, when the urgent need to know comes in their way like a nuclear emergency. Ia'm positive George Sr, the president knew it like the back of his hand.

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (9366)	11/5/1999 8:46:00 AM
From: JPR	Respond to of 12475

INDIAN EXPRESS FRONT PAGE SAARC summit off on India's request JYOTI MALHOTRA NEW DELHI, NOV 4: Only for the second time in its 14-year-old history, the SAARC summit has been postponed. India announced on Thursday that it had formally asked for the deferment of the summit, slated for November 26-28, in Kathmandu, Nepal. A Ministry of External Affairs spokesman said that New Delhi had asked for the postponement on ``account of the military coup d'etat in Pakistan and the consequent concern and disquiet expressed in the region and beyond.'No other country in the region has publicly made known its views on the deferment, but it is believed that not only Bhutan and Bangladesh, but even Nepal, have privately joined India in expressing the wish that the summit be postponed until the region takes stock of the military dictatorship in Pakistan. According to the SAARC chapter, which operates on the principle of consensus, even if one country has a problem in attending the summit, it must necessarily be deferred. The spokesman said the Government had informed not only the current SAARCchairperson (Sri Lanka) but also the host country (Nepal), that ``in the interest of SAARC and of a productive meeting, it would be appropriate to defer the Summit for the time being.' New Delhi's new-found assertiveness has obviously been boosted by the support it has received from its neighbours, save Sri Lanka. Minister of state for External Affairs Ajit Panja, who arrived in Colombo on Wednesday to attend the funeral of the Sri Lankan leader Thondaman, attempted to persuade Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar to support New Delhi in isolating Pakistan. So far, though, Colombo has persisted with the explanation that since the coup in Pakistan is an ``internal affair' of that country, SAARC should not be made a victim of intra-regional politics. One SAARC diplomat whose country also doesn't want Pakistan's Gen. Musharraf to ``grandstand' on the SAARC stage, pointed that it was ``curious that Sri Lanka as a member of the Commonwealth had acquiesced' in suspending Pakistan from theCommonwealth Council of Ministers, but had a different view on Musharraf when it came to the SAARC region. Ministry sources here denied that India was linking the deferment of the SAARC summit with the return of democracy to Pakistan, saying that New Delhi was only making its position known for the present tense. ``Once things become clearer in Pakistan, we will take a position,' the sources said and indicated that Musharraf would have to take some steps on cross-border terrorism before that could happen. Certainly, the blunt ascription to Pakistan's coup as the reason for deferment is to put pressure on the Musharraf regime and tell India's interlocutors worldwide that New Delhi will not rest easy unless the neighbourhood stabilises. The government is still not fully convinced about the US' privately-stated determination to put pressure on Musharraf to return to democracy. Thursday's announcement of its decision is as much a signal to the Commonwealth to suspend Pakistan outright at its next summit inDurban, South Africa. Copyright ¸ 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.