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To: goldsnow who wrote (42095)	1/14/2002 3:05:27 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Indian newspapers on Monday hailed Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's pledge to crack down on extremists as a watershed in Indo-Pakistan relations, and called on India to respond with a cutback in border troop deployments, sources said. Nuclear armed rivals India and Pakistan have agreed in telephone calls with US President George W. Bush to reduce building tensions that have seen troops mass on their shared border, the White House said on Monday. Bush telephoned the leaders of the rival neighbours Sunday after Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's pledge to crack down on extremists -- a move cautiously welcomed by India. Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee "agreed to reduce tensions," White House spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters in Washington, adding he was unaware whether specific steps to do so were discussed. Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, Dr Maleeha Lodhi, said in an interview Sunday that President Pervez Musharraf had already demonstrated that he was a man of action and it was now for India to join Pakistan in addressing the underlying causes of discord, the core one being Kashmir. She told Fox Television News during an interview that President Musharraf had shown that he did not just talk the talk but he could walk the walk. However, it took two to tango and India should return to the negotiation table so that the two countries could settle their differences, the most basic one being Kashmir which had remained unresolved for over half a century.