Journalists Stress More Contacts Between India and Pakistan
December 14, 1998 - 0:0
NEW DELHI, India Journalists from India and Pakistan on Sunday called for more contacts between the people of their nations in an effort to solve the half-century hostility between the two Asian neighbors. ``The basic concern of people of India and Pakistan is how to improve their lives,'' said Sabih Mohsin Syed, a former director of the state-run Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation. ``Both nations share similar problems.
Let us learn from each other and solve our problems,'' Syed told a three-day conference of journalists that is among non-governmental efforts to improve relations between the two neighbors who have fought three wars since they were carved out by departing British colonialists in 1947. The conference, organized by the National Media Center, an independent body of journalists in New Delhi, is being attended by nine delegates from Pakistan and some two dozen Indian members.
Speakers noted that Indian and Pakistani newspapers and televisions have little information about each other's countries except reports of disasters or government statements. (AP)
Let us learn from each other and solve our problems,'' Syed told a three-day conference of journalists that is among non-governmental efforts to improve relations between the two neighbors who have fought three wars since they were carved out by departing British colonialists in 1947. The conference, organized by the National Media Center, an independent body of journalists in New Delhi, is being attended by nine delegates from Pakistan and some two dozen Indian members.
Speakers noted that Indian and Pakistani newspapers and televisions have little information about each other's countries except reports of disasters or government statements. (AP)