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Benazir Bhutto for peace treaty

Washington: The former Pakistan Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, has said she wanted to see a treaty between India and her country in the 60th year of their independence that would “promise” peace for the coming generations.

“...in the 60th year of Pakistan’s and India’s independence, we would like to see both entering into a treaty that can promise peace to coming generations,” she said at the Middle East Institute here. “Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and I worked to turn the SAARC from a cultural organisation to an economic one during the retreat of December 1988 of SAARC leaders,” she said.

Ms. Bhutto supported the composite dialogue between the two countries. “India and Pakistan have come a long way since 1988 since Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and I tried to build peace in the region and were criticised by parts of the military establishment and also our political opponents,” she told PTI.

“So it gives me great satisfaction to see that now the establishment and opponents have come on board. While we have not been privy to the composite dialogue, we support the composite dialogue so long it is supported by the people of Kashmir and we would like to see the dialogue make progress. — PTI

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