Documents / FOIA release
This is an unclassified, For Official Use Only news compilation produced by the US Embassy Kabul Public Affairs Office and distributed by the Open Source Center on 15 August 2015. It was later approved for release by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2018. It gathers Afghan, Pakistani and international press reports on an anti-Pakistan protest in Washington, China's support for Afghan peace talks, the combat debut of Afghan MD-530 helicopters, hostage releases in Ghazni and unemployment in Kunduz. It contains nothing about UFOs.
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Print Mcssagc(s) Approved for Release: 2018/09/0_4 C06708887 o _ . _ Page 46 of 49 \ . _ 1 UNCLASSHUEDWH§U9-- meetings focusing on the issue arelheld§ India comes up with one excuse after another. The way the unfortunate Mumbai incident has been used to put down and corner Pakistan speaks volumes for India's L ‘ ' . ' ' _ ' real intentions. Not even the simpler matters like Siachin and Sir Creek can be settled.‘ , . Pakistan is keen to restart the talks. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has gone out of the way more than once. All that he has met with are . , . rebuffs and hostile statements. Imagine a prime minister of a neighbouring country calling Pakistan ‘a nuisance‘ while visiting another country. Statements made by Prime Minister Modi in Bangladesh _ I ' P . - »’ . in which he glorified Indian's role in breaking up Pakistan were to say the least highly provocative. The UFA meeting between two Prime Ministers remained unproductive for many weeks because no date for the National Secretary Advisors was fixed. The joint statement was a - I I . lopsided expression of wishful thinking and tilted towards India's concern about Pakistan's terrorist activities. Rightly realizing . “the I ‘ - 7'- ' "' ' ' - somewhat disconcerting wording of the joint statement and subsequent ‘ ' ~ _ accusations hurled at Pakistan in regard to the Gurdaspur incident also restarting of unprovoked firing across the Line of Control and the Working Boundary, our security Advisor, Mr. Sartaj Aziz has been k expressing reservations about the proposed meeting schedule. Good that he wants an agenda which includes India's involvement in Pakistan in trouble sports like Balochistan, Fata and Karachi. Earlier this week the Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan . addressed " V _ specially convened meetings in Lahore. His speech at the human Rights . - . . Commission was interesting in the sense that he chose to confine’ his . .. ‘ \ . remarks to highlight the positive aspects of the history of relations .- 3 A i ' between the two countries. He referred for instance to the Indus Basin Treaty and how it has held. He was silent about the real disputes and bones of contention like Kashmir and Siachin. When = rpressed at question time to say a few words about Kashmir, he advised . '. to keep it sidelined while focusing on other matters such as trade - ‘ ' UNCLASSlFIE'D77F'OU-60- ' . I . _ ‘_ ' . ~ . ' s/23/2017 Approved for Release: 2018/09/04 C06708887
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 49 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.