{"id":653,"date":"2004-02-18T10:46:21","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T15:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/india_pakistan_make_progress\/"},"modified":"2004-02-18T10:46:21","modified_gmt":"2004-02-18T15:46:21","slug":"india_pakistan_make_progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/india_pakistan_make_progress\/","title":{"rendered":"India, Pakistan Make Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Middle East has taught us not to get too excited over a &#8220;road map,&#8221; but news <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/kashmir\/Story\/0,2763,1150874,00.html\">from South Asia looks encouraging<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pakistan and India today laid out a timetable for peace talks on a wide range of topics, including the key issues of Kashmir, nuclear safeguards and terrorism.<br \/>\nA series of mid-level meetings will begin directly after the Indian elections in April, culminating in a summit in August between the two nations&#8217; foreign ministers.<br \/>\n&#8220;We do have a basic road map for a Pakistan-India peace process to which we have both agreed,&#8221; the senior official in Pakistan&#8217;s foreign ministry, Riaz Khokhar, told reporters at the conclusion of the talks.<br \/>\nEven before the Indian elections, technical-level talks will be held on transport links and other issues, Mr Khokhar said after a face-to-face meeting with his Indian counterpart, Shashank.<br \/>\n&#8220;We feel that the atmosphere is much better,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There is a realisation on both sides that war is not an option.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully a terrorist group won&#8217;t pop up and derail things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/india_pakistan_make_progress\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to India, Pakistan Make Progress\"><p>The Middle East has taught us not to get too excited over a &#8220;road map,&#8221; but news from South Asia looks encouraging: Pakistan and India today laid out a timetable for peace talks on a wide range of topics, including the key issues of Kashmir, nuclear safeguards and terrorism. A series of mid-level meetings will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}