Will India negotiate on converting LoC into de jure border?
I don’t think Jaswant Singh said anything that merits this kind of controversy. In any case, if anything has to be said on this it will be said by Mr Singh. I have only seen his contradiction of the said press release. Do you think LoC will ever be a part of a dialogue with Kashmir? No. As far as the joint working group is concerned, everything depends upon how Pakistan responds to India’s initiative for a talk and seven to eight issues have been identified. But if the basic approach of Pakistan is that the other issues will be discussed only when Kashmir is separated, it would remain a major bottleneck for any progress in talks. (You have) any new initiative? Let’s see whatcomes out of the meeting between the two Prime Ministers at the SAARC summit. Compare Indo-China and Indo-Pak relations. In case of China, once communication was resumed after the war, it has continued till today. There is no progress on the boundary dispute but at the same time there is no tension of the kind that
