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To: JPR who wrote (10703)	2/15/2000 2:34:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

... determined conventional strike by superior air and missile forces of the enemy can inflict substantial damage on the command and control structure itself. How "determined" will it be? All that China has to do is to declare after the first sortie by the IAF over Pakistan, that it regards any attack on Pakistan as an attack on China itself, and the Indian leaders' dhotis will turn brown! Hahahahaha!

To: JPR who wrote (10703)	2/15/2000 11:13:00 PM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

dawn.com WASHINGTON, Feb 15: There is a good chance that United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Defence Secretary William Cohen will visit Pakistan during President Clinton's visit to India. Informed Pakistan sources said that this was one of the proposals under consideration to balance the negative impact of not including Pakistan in the president's itinerary in South Asia. That Albright will be accompanying the president was almost confirmed by the State Department spokesman Jamie Rubin on Monday when he told his regular briefing: "I certainly think that's a possibility, yes; a strong one, yes." Sources say the idea behind the two secretaries' visiting Pakistan was to sound out the Pakistan leadership on exchanges and discussions that Mr Clinton will have in New Delhi. "If there was chance of positive developments during his talks in New Delhi and Albright's discussions in Pakistan, it is possible that the President may land in Pakistan after finishing his Bangladesh tour," one source said. Rubin again clarified on Monday about President Clinton's agenda in New Delhi and said there were "a number of issues where we have specific concerns, sometimes profound concerns, and those are issues that I would expect the President and the Secretary to be discussing with the Indian government. "Clearly, India is the world's largest democracy and is only going to get larger, and we do think it's important to have a good working relationship with India. That is something we've tried to build. "On the other hand, that doesn't mean we don't have problems in the relationship and the non-proliferation was a major problem. The decision by India to initiate a nuclear explosion and the resulting effect on Pakistan, and the dangers the whole world felt were created by that (as they) led to international views that India must take steps to deal with the dangers of the nuclear arms race to the whole world and to the Indians and to the Pakistanis. "So there are a number of issues where we have specific concerns, sometimes profound concerns, and those are issues that I would expect the President and the Secretary to be discussing with the Indian government. "And I don't know how to do the designation other than to say that we want to have a close working relationship with the world's largest democracy," Rubin said.