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/ 4 November 2005
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Friday accused the West of double standards for failing to meet the country’s quake aid needs, adding that he will delay buying United States fighter jets to focus on relief efforts. Musharraf met quake survivors in stricken Kashmir during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
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/ 30 October 2005
Pakistan and India agreed on Sunday to an unprecedented opening of their heavily militarised border in disputed Kashmir to help victims of the devastating October 8 earthquake. More than 54 000 have been confirmed dead in Pakistan, mainly in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
It was almost as if the last 58 years of painful separation had never happened. Some of the first 30 bus passengers for more than half a century to cross from Pakistan’s side of divided Kashmir to the Indian zone kissed the ground in what just minutes before had been alien territory.