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June 2002 - Pakistan Special Weapons News

  • POWELL-MUSHARRAF VOA 24 Jun 2002-- The State Department says Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has reiterated a pledge to the United States to permanently halt the infiltration of Muslim militants across the "line of control" into Indian Kashmir. Interview remarks by the Pakistani leader seeming to pull back from that stand prompted a telephone call to Mr. Musharraf from Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday
  • PAK/RELIGION VOA 19 Jun 2002-- Pakistan's government is tightening control over Islamic seminaries in the country, barring them from receiving foreign financial aid and ordering them to register with authorities
  • PAK / INDIA VOA 17 Jun 2002 -- Pakistan says it will withdraw troops from along the tense border with India if India takes such a step.
  • PAK / INDIA VOA 17 Jun 2002 -- Pakistan says it will withdrawal troops from along the tense border with India if India takes such a step.
  • PAK/INDIA VOA 17 Jun 2002 -- Pakistan says it would reciprocate if Indian forces withdraw from border areas to reduce chances of another conflict between the countries.
  • PAK/BLAST VOA 15 Jun 2002 -- American officials are helping Pakistani authorities piece together clues from Friday's car-bomb attack outside the American consulate in Karachi that killed 11 people and wounded 50 others.
  • PAK/U-S/INDIA VOA 13 Jun 2002-- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has concluded a peace mission to India and Pakistan, saying there are indications tensions between the two countries are easing
  • RUMSFELD/PAKISTAN VOA 13 Jun 2002-- U-S Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is in Pakistan for talks with President Pervez Musharraf. It is Mr. Rumsfelds's second stop on a trip to South Asia aimed at cooling tensions between India and Pakistan over the disputed region of Kashmir
  • PAK/U-S/INDIA VOA 13 Jun 2002-- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says that India and Pakistan have made some progress towards easing border tensions in recent days
  • Rumsfeld Sees No Evidence of al-Qaida in Kashmir Washington File 13 Jun 2002-- Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said the United States has no verifiable evidence that al-Qaida forces are operating in Kashmir.
  • PAK/INDIA MUSHARRAF VOA 11 Jun 2002-- Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf says India's gestures to ease a dangerous military stand off between the countries are not enough
  • India-Pakistan Crisis Shows Signs of Abatement, Boucher Says Washington File 10 June 2002-- While the India-Pakistan crisis is not yet over, the United States welcomes signs that it is abating, said State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher
  • Armitage Sees Diminished Tensions Between India, Pakistan Washington File 10 June 2002-- Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said on June 8 that "tensions are down measurably" between India and Pakistan. Armitage was speaking at a media availability in Tallinn, Estonia, after departing India.
  • PRESS CONFERENCE BY PAKISTAN United Nations 10 Jun 2002
  • PAK/INDIA REACT VOA 10 June 2002-- Pakistan says it welcomes India's decision to lift air restrictions on Pakistani civilian planes flying over Indian territory
  • Associated Press of Pakistan News Summary 10- 06-2002 APP 10 June 2002-- Musharraf says India-Pakistan crisis will not derail October polls
  • Associated Press of Pakistan News Summary 08- 06-2002 APP 08 June 2002-- Pakistan has no aggressive designs but to defend its borders with all resources: Musharraf
  • Musharraf Gives U.S. Assurance He Will Act to Avoid War Washington File 06 June 2002-- U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage says Pakistani President Musharraf has given assurances that Pakistan will do everything possible to avoid war with India over the disputed territory of Kashmir.
  • U.S., Pakistani Goal Is to Permanently Stop Infiltration Washington File 06 June 2002-- State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher said the situation between India and Pakistan remains "very tense," but that some "marginal progress" has been recorded as a result of Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage's talks in the region.
  • AMBASSADOR TERESITA SCHAFFER VOA 06 June 2002-- The dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir has escalated in recent weeks to the point of possible war. It's a conflict that many fear could involve those countries' nuclear weapons
  • PAK/U-S/INDIA VOA 06 June 2002-- A top U-S official says Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has given assurances he wants to avoid war with India.
  • PAKISTAN / INDIA VOA 05 June 2002-- Pakistan says it is not against India's proposal for joint patrolling of the cease-fire line in Kashmir if India proposes it formally for negotiation
  • PAKISTAN-INDIA-NUCLEAR VOA 03 June 2002-- The crisis between India and Pakistan has sparked international concern that a war might quickly escalate to a nuclear exchange. But there is little public concern in both countries about that prospect



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