Wednesday, July 18, 2001, Chandigarh, India
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Agra another step towards
peace: India
Agra, July 17
Asserting that the Vajpayee-Musharraf summit in this town of immortal love had not failed, Union External Affairs and Defence Minister Jaswant Singh was categoric that there were “conceptual differences” between India and Pakistan. “India and Pakistan should transcend these differences for the welfare of the two peoples and it is New Delhi’s constant endeavour to bridge them,” he said at a press conference here in the forenoon.

Jaswant Singh
Indian External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh

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Talks did not fail: Sattar
Islamabad, July 17
Pakistan said today that the talks with India at Agra had remained inconclusive but did not fail as the two sides had a meeting of mind and transformed the vision into words to achieve progress on the normalisation of bilateral relations.

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar speaks to reporters on Tuesday at the Foreign Office in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Pakistan's Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar speaks to reporters, on Tuesday at Foreign office in Islamabad, Pakistan that the meeting between Pakistan's president Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was very fruitful.
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Agra, July 17
Where do we go from here? The failure of the Indo-Pak summit at this historic place need not be taken as reaching the end of the road in bilateral relations. The threads of peace will have to be picked up. This is not only a necessity but a compulsion with the subcontinent being a high tension spot coupled with global realities.


Al-Badr ultra, 3 others killed
Srinagar, July 17
The security forces killed four militants, including a self-styled district commander, and arrested three others while militants shot dead a jawan, injured nine others and also set on fire the houses of four police personnel in Jammu and Kashmir during the past 24 hours.
Activists of the Pakistan-based Al-Badr Islamic militant group look at the Kashmir map in their office in Lahore on Monday.
Activists of the Pakistan-based Al-Badr Islamic militant group look at the Kashmir map in their office in Lahore on Monday.
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Army patrolling a forward village in north Kashmir to foil any attempt of militants to intensify their activities after the breakdown in the Indo-Pak summit.

Army patrolling a forward village in north Kashmir to foil any attempt of militants to intensify their activities after the breakdown in the Indo-Pak summit. — PTI photo

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Pak orders combing of prisons for PoWs
Islamabad, July 17
The Pakistan Government has ordered the “combing” of all prisons in the country to find Indian Prisoners of War (PoWs) languishing there, soon after President Pervez Musharraf promised to look into the issue, media reports quoting official sources said today.

Pervez’s view scuttled success: BJP
New Delhi, July 17
Bharatiya Janata Party President K. Jana Krishnamurthi today held Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf’s “utterances” at the breakfast meeting with editors yesterday responsible for the Indo-Pak summit failure at Agra.

Editors blame live coverage
Agra, July 17
India today disapproved of the live telecast by Pakistan Television (PTV) of Musharraf’s breakfast meeting with senior editors here, stating that it was understood that the interaction would be “off the record.”

Disappointment engulfs valley
Srinagar, July 17
An overwhelming wave of disappointment is visible in Kashmir following the failure of the Agra summit between India and Pakistan, which ended in a deadlock without reaching even a joint declaration last night. “We are upset over the developments which led to the failure of talks” between India and Pakistan at Agra, says Fayaz Ahmed Bhat, a resident of the interior city. 

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