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This
conflict threatens the coherence of the U.S led coalition for the War on
Terror
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A war
between Pakistan and India would have catastrophic consequences for the U.S War
on Terrorism. The U.S led effort will be doomed, and the entire region
including Afghanistan will be engulfed in turmoil. Pakistani assets currently
supporting our forces in Afghanistan and hunting Al-Qaeda in Pakistan would be
diverted towards Pakistan's Eastern front
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A war
between Pakistan and India, would threaten the security of our forces in
Afghanistan. Taking advantage of the chaos and crisis, Al-Qaeda and Taliban
will surely regroup and threaten the new Afghan regime and coalition
forces
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Precious
accomplishments and headway made against Al-Qaeda and Taliban would effectively
be reversed, as Al-Qaeda will most surely thrive and benefit from this
conflict
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We
feel that the US led War on Terror is an integral part of US National Security,
and since a war between Pakistan and India threatens the desired goals and
objective of this effort the US must step in and resolve this issue. The 56
year old dispute over Kashmir is no longer an issue between Pakistan and India,
it is today a part of US National Security due to its link with the US War
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The
two countries have not and for obvious reasons will not be able to resolve this
issue bilaterally. A third party is needed to mediate between them
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UN Security Council has specific resolutions discussing the cause and solutions
of this conflict. Both countries need to honor Kashmir specific UN Security
Council Resolutions, and abide by the express wishes of the indigenous people
of Jammu and Kashmir
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With this whole
situation the people of Kashmir are the ones suffering the most followed by all
the people of Pakistan and India
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As the current issue is
alleged infiltration of people in the Indian occupied Kashmir, then the
presence of an international force to watch, observe the truth to these
allegation seems a common sense approach. We must support the presence of
independent forces to observe the situation.
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The Indian
objective is get a secondary gain to deflect internal as well as external
attention away from the recent massacres committed against the Indian Muslims
in Gujrat, and killings of other minorities by activists of the ruling party,
the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
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The
US goal at this time should not only include immediate diffusion of tension,
but should include development of mechanisms to help resolve the core reason of
Kashmir which is the central cause of the conflict.
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