Pakistan press hopes for peace after India vote

[Coventina]

Source: AFP

ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistani newspapers expressed hope Monday for peace with arch-rival India after the moderate Congress-led alliance won elections in the nuclear-armed rising power.

India's election commission said the Congress alliance won 261 seats and the party itself 206 -- its best performance since 1991.

Pakistan and India began a slow-moving peace process in February 2004 which ground to a halt after New Delhi blamed the Mumbai attacks, in which 166 people were killed last November, on a Pakistani-based militant organisation.

Prominent English-language newspaper The News predicted that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, after starting his second-term in office, would focus on improving relations with Pakistan.



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[nyy1998]

1. The Subcontinent has had it's share

of good news this past weekend but this is pure speculation on the Pakistani newspapers. I guess this is more of a "Call me when it actually happens" type of situation.

[ohio2007]

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