Article July 8, 2002 Issue

India and Pakistan

What will it take to break the impasse?

By Warren Bolon Sentinel staff

He has a simple wish. Subhash Malhotra is a retired civil engineer, a Christian who lives in Bombay. He would like to visit the city of Quetta, in Pakistan.

"I was born in Quetta, near the Afghan border. I would love to return some day. There was a severe earthquake in that region in the late 1930s. My father went there to help the people rebuild their city, and that's when I was born."

Although tensions have eased recently in the Jammu-Kashmir region, hundreds of thousands of soldiers are still garrisoned there, concern still rides high over the possible use of nuclear weapons, and ordinary Indians and Pakistanis cannot travel freely across their shared border.

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