role of media in indo pak relations?
99953
well when media protrays the other country as a mortal enemy - like in the movie Border - it can't make the two countries closer...so media can sway Indo Pak relations...remember when the two countries were about to go to war, the media was so forceful about the devastating issue - that things got sorted out pretty fast.\n\nSo yes Media has a big role
486372
Although I'm an Indian I think that both India and Pakistan are responsible for the Kashmir problem. Normally Indians blame Pakistan and Pakistanis blame India. It's not that simple. We must know what people of Kashmir want. Most of the Kashmiris want independence. However if India loses Kashmir it would be easier for terrorists to attack India. This is the reason why India can't let go of Kashmir
877140
The answer is simple.\nThey did not show the meetings of Former primeministers.\nNawaz Sharif, Benazir Bhutto and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto because the parties of these leaders are in opposition right now.\n\nGeneral Pervez Musharraf is a military dictator who removed the elected prime minister Nawaz Sharif by force. Benazir Bhutto is alos against the military dictator, hence the obvious ommission from the news.
583752
The media. Through spin and sensationalism they control the minds and emotions of the masses. They are the one international power that affects every civilized nation without exception and can induce riots, revolts, protests, public outrage, boycotts, or whatever else they wish.
93311
Its purely political. India is a relative friend of ours, if we supply them with nuclear power it evens the playing field with Iran and Pakistan.
765262
It is coalition politics. Sonia Gandhi who accused them as killers of Rajiv Gandhi, in cllusion with LTTE has accpted them as bed fellows for cheap political gain. This is politics! Of course, of Indian style.
661652
So far media on both sides have done a lot to create conflicts. Hopefully they learn to play role in conflict resolution as well.
486926
nowdays its reservation and the dirty vote bank politics that the politicians are playing.\n\nbut yes otherwise ;- bollywood
769006
One of the best things Pervez Musharraf has done for Pakistan is to  allow the press to discuss important issues freely without any fear.  One such issue is the treatment of rape victims.  The papers and women from all over the country have been campaigning vigorously for a long time now and it has just proved successful.  I don't think that Pakistan will become a secular country, like France, but there are plenty of people there who have enough common sense to know when a law isn't working.  Defiantly a step in the right direction,  good on Pakistan I say!
1041128
Politically unstable with a high level of illiteracy, mixed with religious fanaticism.\n\nForever causing brinkmanship with its neighbor India over the Kashmir region.
675869
mainly because of media. media has given so much importance to cricket .no other sport in india get better coverage than cricket. also it is the only in which india stands firm with rest of the world unlike football and hockey in  which indian team is far behind than rest of the world
831567
Do you really think that they have to ask permission to the Americans? I think they too have the right to make their own political alliances.\n___\n\n"Many experts predict the new closeness between the world's only superpower and Islamabad's fiercest rival will prompt Pakistan to develop even closer ties with its longtime strategic security partner, China.\n\nPakistan needs a deterrent against India.\n\nThe animosity between the two countries dates to partition in August 1947, when the British divided their former colony into two states. India was meant to be a secular democracy and Pakistan, a homeland for South Asian Muslims. More than six million Muslims migrated to Pakistan, and more than four million Hindus and Sikhs moved to India. Tremendous violence and upheaval during the partition process left more than one million people dead.\nIn the half-century since, Pakistan and India have fought three wars and come close a few other times. The unresolved issue of the disputed territory of Kashmir and periodic military buildups on both sides have kept tensions high. Many Pakistanis still worry that India wants to reunite the territory under its control. Both countries tested nuclear weapons in 1998".\n\nQuoted from: \nChina and Pakistan: A Deepening Bond\nAuthor:Esther Pan\nMarch 8, 2006\nhttp://www.cfr.org/publication/10070/china_and_pakistan.html
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Newspaper, Radio or TV
1045247
Look at history!\nPakistan and India, as well as Bangladesh, are the same people, they were the same state for thousands of years, until British decided to step in. When the Hindu people throw them out, the British intelligence provoked a civil war and the three states were created! Thus, in the last 5 decades there are the problems between them, especially between Pakistan and India!\nI think that the problems continue because there is outside "help"! Without it, the two sister countries would have resolved all matters and would not need to fight for anything!
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L'opinion: Pakistan needs UN and OIC umbrella to send peace-keeping forces to Iraq\nIraq-Pakistan, Politics, 7/21/2003 \n\nPakistan will only send peace-keeping missions to Iraq under a mandate of the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who paid an official visit to Morocco, told Morocan daily "L'opinion."\n\nMusharraf said Pakistan has not yet made a decision regarding a request to send troops to Iraq for a peace-keeping mission, underlining that the final decision should serve Pakistan's national interests and its relations with Islamic countries in the region.\n\nOn the situation in the Middle East, Musharraf said the only means to establish sustainable peace in the region goes through carrying on negotiations that would lead to a comprehensive and fair solution in conformity with United Nations resolutions and based on the legitimate right of the Palestinian people of self-determination.\n\nEvoking Arab Maghreb countries' position on the Kashmir question, the Pakistani president underscored that he is certain that these countries fully understand Pakistan's position concerning its support for a peaceful solution to the conflict.\n\nMusharraf also said Pakistani authorities do not have any new information about where Ussam Bin Laden is, underlining that they don't know for sure if he is dead or still alive. In the same vein, he hoped Pakistani-Afghan relations would be further reinforced on the basis of mutual sovereignty and non-interference in the internal affairs of the other party.\n\nHe added that Pakistan is participating in the re-construction of Afghanistan and that it fully supports the interim administration of president Hamid Karazay.
640838
Unfortunately television is the way most people get their news...there are all sorts of issues that we Americans went forever without hearing turmoil in Sri Lanka...mass genocide in Africa just be glad that TV still gives some issues a voice otherwise everyone in this country that didn't read would be clueless...
515282
Why would the Media want to resolve conflict. That is want the media lives on. They would be shooting them self in the head to resolve any thing. There goal is to add gas to the fire. For better video.