01 February 2005	Tuesday	21 Zilhaj 1425

LONDON, Jan 31: Pakistan will propose a series of confidence-boosting joint projects with India, which it hopes will pave the way to progress in ending difficulties such as the dispute over Kashmir, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

A gas pipeline to connect India with Iran via Pakistan and a move to open banking links were among possible measures which "would improve the atmospherics", Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz told the FT in an interview.

The paper quoted Aziz as adding there were "many other possibilities which we want to explore". Aziz would make the proposals to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the Saarc summit in Bangladesh next weekend. -Reuters