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Article: A vision for India-Pakistan collaboration.(Opinion)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 17, 2002
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Byline: Akbar Ahmed and Amit Pandya
WASHINGTON -- With troops massed at the India-Pakistan border, and communication and travel between the two nations frozen, we are reminded of the perpetual possibility of armed conflict between these nuclear-armed neighbors.
Rich in culture and resources, and the birthplace of several great civilizations and world religions, the region is marked by poverty and conflict. Despite its recent advances in cyberscience and its mature spiritual traditions, India evokes images of disease and social dysfunction. Pakistan suggests religious intolerance, and a culture of irrational violence. For both of us - one Pakistani, the ...