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Article: Cold war ends. (India and Pakistan) (Asia)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 22, 1989
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India and Pakistan Cold war ends
HE MAY still be clumping about in Sri Lanka, but he does a neat pas de deux with the Pakistani lady. In a series of moves that began last December, India's Mr Rajiv Gandhi has reached agreement with Pakistan's Miss Benazir Bhutto on how to end the bitter little undeclared war between the two countries on the icy wastes of the Siachen glacier, on the northern edge of Kashmir: a war which, over five years, has killed hundreds of their soldiers.
The Siachen war began because of a missing dotted line. Kashmir has been in dispute between India and Pakistan since the two countries gained their independence from the British ...