To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45165 ) 12/10/2003 3:52:22 AM From: IQBAL LATIF Respond to of 50167 As a result of global check on terror the camps are being taken out, the cease fire after 22 years is holding, old foes are becoming friends, the farms are being re-cultivated, bombs are not dropping, 1.2 billion people are benefiting from the 'carrot and stick' policy implemented by the administration. Pak India peace could not have been possible if the nice innocents extremists would not have been curbed the way they are now in Pakistan post 911. Bush doctrine has increased global pressure of countries that use to turn blind eye to terror organisation, it is not an accident that peace has all of sudden broken out, cease fire has come into effect, it is a direct result of terror being eliminated, the cross border terror that was the stumbling block between relationships of the two nations, the entire nation of Pakistan was hijacked by Talebinisation, now we see a little hope, God bless the change and people who had the courage to bring the change, this is a new world a world that will see freedom from tyranny and coercion. This is the language of the new age which Pak ambassador uses in India and the blind fold people cannot see it, intellectualising and hi sermons from pulpits are old signs of decadence which people display with great authority and indignity. Pakistan will guarantee the security of proposed gas pipelines running through its territory to India, its envoy to New Delhi said. The overland route of gas pipelines from Central Asia through Pakistan would be economically viable for India. Pakistan will give absolute guarantees the pipeline would be protected, Pakistan High Commissioner to India Aziz Ahmed Khan said. The ambassador's remarks, weeks ahead of a planned visit to Pakistan by Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, revived hopes for piped gas imports into India, which is short of energy. We firmly believe that Pakistan and India are not destined to live as adversaries forever...We need cooperation and not confrontation; he told a meeting organised by a peace group in the eastern city of Calcutta. Pakistan, energy-rich Turkmenistan and Afghanistan have invited India to take part in a project that would see gas pipelines snake through some of the world's toughest terrain. As we enter the new century, the need for reducing tensions and establishing more fruitful economic interaction between the two countries was never so great, Khan said.