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India, Pakistan Struggle to Set Terms for Peace Talks

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As India’s foreign minister, S.M. Krishna, prepared to open Thursday’s talks with archrival Pakistan in Islamabad, he said he was bringing “a message &of peace” to his Pakistani counterpart, Shah Memood Qureshi.

But earlier in the week, India directly accused Pakistan’s intelligence agency of coordinating the 2008 Mumbai attacks. In the past, India has said the agency, the ISI, was linked to the attackers, but this week’s allegations are the first to directly blame the Pakistani government.

Robert Bradnock, a senior visiting research fellow at King’s College in London, recently published the first-ever public opinion survey of people living in both Indian and Pakistani Kashmir. Bradnock told VOA’s Barry Newhouse that despite a long history of strained relations, both India and Pakistan seem to want to get back on solid ground.

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