Silicon Valley (US), Nov 19: Though peace initiatives between India and Pakistan have tended to fall by the wayside, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's decision to attend the forthcoming SAARC summit in Islamabad offered a new hope for movement towards peace in South Asia, Benazir Bhutto, former Pakistani Prime Minister, has said. Addressing a press conference in San Jose yesterday, Bhutto said that peace between the two countries was too important an objective and should not be given up, adding "I am very happy to see that there is still another hope that is looming on the horizon with the forthcoming SAARC conference."
"I believe Prime Minister Vajpayee is planning to attend that conference in Islamabad and I hope the leaders of India and Pakistan will be able to move forward and will be able to realize that 55 years of conflict has given both India and Pakistan and the billion people in South Asia the threat of a possible nuclear holocaust," she said.
That was a scenario too horrible to envisage, she added.
Bureau Report