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Under the best of circumstances, the chances of India and Pakistan's solving their prickly dispute over control of Kashmir are not very bright. Last week, on the eve of the fourth round of talks in Calcutta, Pakistan dimmed hopes of settlement even further by signing a border agreement with Red China, which recognized Pakistani control to a part of northern Kashmir that has long been claimed by the Indians...
India angrily fired off notes to both Rawalpindi and Peking condemning the pact. New Delhi was less disturbed by the barren, mountainous geography involved than by the fact that Pakistan Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto could travel to Peking and negotiate a separate deal on a chunk of Kashmir with the Communist enemy, while the talks with India were still going on, and while Chinese troops still menaced India's Himalayan frontier. It just might be that Pakistan's Bhutto was using the Chinese agreement as a club to scare India's government into making compromises...
...third round of the Kashmir talks began in Karachi last week, a cactus plant was prominently placed on the negotiating table in front of India's Chief Negotiator Sardar Swaran Singh-an apt symbol of just how prickly the dispute between India and Pakistan still remains. Yet by the end of the day, the first faint glimmer of compromise was visible. In a sharp departure from its previous inflexible stand, India indicated that it would be willing to partition Kashmir along a boundary other than the current U.N. cease-fire line, which now gives India two-thirds...
Though Pakistan still says it wants all of Kashmir, it has sidetracked its demand for a plebiscite over the whole area, which is 77% Moslem. The prospect is for another round of negotiations in April, this time in New Delhi...
Indian and Pakistani delegates met in New Delhi last week to resume negotiations over control of disputed Kashmir province. Two days of discussions failed to break the impasse that appeared at the very first meeting in December. Pakistan repeated its demand for a plebiscite, which would surely bring Kashmir under its control; India insisted that the present cease-fire line, which gives India two-thirds of the province, become, with only minor adjustments, the permanent legal frontier between the two countries. Though neither side would budge, neither wanted to take the blame for breaking off the talks for good...