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India, Pakistani officials meet to reduce tension along their border |
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May 4, 2000 WAGHA, India, MAY 3 (AP) - Indian and Pakistani officials met Wednesday to discuss steps to reduce tension along their border, where gunfire is exchanged almost every day.
The meeting is held twice a year. On Wednesday, a 30-member delegation of Pakistani Rangers headed by Maj. Gen. Zarar Hussain and Maj. Gen. Ghulam Qadir, director-general of the Punjab and Sindh regions respectively, were given a warm welcome at the Wagha border post.
India's G.S.Virk, inspector-general of the Border Security Force, and other officials held talks with the Pakistani team at the BSF office in Jalandhar, a nearby city in the Indian state of Punjab.
The four-day talks will also include ways to check drug trafficking, maintenance of posts that demarcate their territories and subjects of mutual interest.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their independence in 1947. Two of them were over the Himalayan state of Kashmir, a region that is divided between them and which both claim in its entirety.
Border guards exchange gun fire, sometimes every day along the border, often leading to casualties.
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