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Sunday, Mar 26, 2006

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Krishna Iyer hails Peace Treaty proposal

KOCHI: Retired Supreme Court Judge V R Krishna Iyer has welcomed the Prime Minister's peace proposal with Pakistan.

In a statement issued here on Saturday, he says: "Despite my eyesight being poor and visibility while reading weak, I did get a glimpse of the fine message you gave to India and Pakistan. You have put forward a positive preposition, a Peace Treaty between the two proximate countries. We, two peoples, were one people once, and even now there is no reason why humanity in habitation in these two geographical territories should not be bound together happily by a fraternal pact. You are a great statesman in presenting this fruitful project and I hope President Musharaf will respond with cultural comity.

The Kashmir issue -- a disastrous stroke of historical materialism and dialectical perversion -- has ruined our neighbouring countries the finest opportunities of being a near federal geography of human solidarity. Hateful hostility, huge waste of countless destructive weaponry and inimical alienation of Nature's rare beauty have been the terrible price we have paid for decades for this Himalayan folly. Let us reverse this misdirection, rehabilitate human fraternity and win for global humanity a gift of dynamic unity and historic tryst with destiny. Candidly, I do not quite agree with your pro-Bush policy (with his White House bulls) but that is irrelevant in the context. I support your imaginatively bold step forward in your epic mission of making India and Pakistan deeply friendly happily brotherly."

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