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To: maceng2 who wrote (837)	10/9/2005 4:24:55 PM
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Press hopes quake may ease ties news.bbc.co.uk Thousands of people have died in the earthquake that struck both sides of the border in the disputed region of Kashmir. Indian and Pakistani newspapers are wondering whether the calamity will lead to the two South Asian rivals co-operating in relief operations and give a much needed boost to the ongoing peace process. India, Pakistan United in Grief is the headline in Sunday's Times Of India newspaper. The newspaper reported that Indian and Pakistani army officers in Kashmir held "meetings" to "offer aid to each other" after the quake hit the area on Saturday. "We told them (Pakistani officials) if you need any help along the border, we are ready for it. The casualties on their side are very high," Indian army chief General JJ Singh was quoted by the newspaper as saying. Adversities do not necessarily provide final solutions. But they do provide a different template to think about complex problems The Sunday Express The Economic Times said the quake had caused "death and destruction, combined grief bring(ing) two nations together". Newspapers reported that a hotline set up recently to further confidence-building measures between India and Pakistan was activated by Delhi to offer help. Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported that the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf had decided that the two countries would co-operate in the relief work. 'No borders' The newspaper reported that leaders in the disputed region of Kashmir had welcomed the offer by both leaders. "Indian and Pakistani leaders' gestures should be seen as a humanitarian effort in our moment of grief," the newspaper quoted one leader as saying. Pakistan's The News newspaper said: "The quake did not respect borders". India's The Telegraph newspaper's lead story even compared the quake to 1947's bloody partition. "India and Pakistan were tied together in tragedy today by a natural phenomenon far more unfathomable than the man-made factors that led to partition over half-a-century ago," the newspaper said. Residents of the disputed region of Kashmir were worst affected The Sunday Express said the quake was a "chance for India, Pakistan to rebuild together". "Adversaries do not necessarily provide final solutions. But they do provide a different template to think about complex problems," the newspaper said. "(Indian Prime Minister Manmohan) Singh needs to offer the creation of joint institutions - between India and Pakistan; and the two parts of divided Kashmir - that can help manage the immediate consequences of the earthquake as well as the long term-challenge of reconstruction across the Line of Control," the newspaper said. The newspaper said during meetings in April, Mr Singh and Gen Musharraf had agreed "one important principle - that borders should not matter". "If there was ever a moment to take that proposition seriously, it is now," the newspaper said. It also reported that the western state of Gujarat's chief minister Narendra Modi had offered to send search and rescue teams to Pakistan. Over 20,000 people had died in Gujarat during an earthquake in 2001. In a separate report, the newspaper quoted a US-based quake expert Roger Bilham as saying that the quake should be a "wake-up call to both India and Pakistan that "here was a common enemy they share".