US urged to defuse tension in S. Asia

Published December 29, 2001

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 28: The Christian Science Monitor on Thursday urged the US administration to use its friendship with India and Pakistan to help defuse an explosive situation.

In an editorial entitled “Cooling Tempers in S.Asia”, the paper said that the rising tensions between Pakistan and India demand an energetic response from the United States. The successful campaign in Afghanistan must not give way to an ominous conflict between South Asia’s two nuclear powers.

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