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The leaders of India and Pakistan capped a successful three-day visit by Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf by announcing that the peace process was "irreversible".

On the second day of a three-day India visit mixing cricket with diplomacy, Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf held two hours of talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on issues that have bedeviled relations for decades.

The army garrison town laid out in the Jhelum Valley gorge lives in the hope that it can cash in on the traffic once the bus link between the two parts of Kashmir becomes more regular.

At a glittering dinner reception that brought Delhi and Islamabad's intelligentsia together, Indian and Pakistani leaders committed themselves to moving the peace process forward.

Travellers like Al Baruni and Hieun Tsang came this way, long before the fabled Jhelum Valley Road from Rawalpindi to Srinagar was formally opened by the Maharaja of Kashmir in 1890.

The man who dotted the i's and crossed the t's in the Guiding Principles that will from now on govern India's relations with China, has done the same ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's first high level meeting with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf today.

One of Pakistan Kashmir's seniormost leaders warned groups that any attack on passengers on the first Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus would be seen as an act of war against Kashmiris.

This man is chief minister in waiting, and you can see why.

Confidence-building measures between India and Pakistan are likely to strengthen social linkages as two divided peoples reunite with long lost relatives and friends.

A leading Indian media figure, named by controversial British MP David Blunkett as the father of his former lover Kimberly Quinn's 1-month-old son has categorically denied the allegation.

You cannot see the devastation when the noisy turbo-prop seaplane cuts its engines and plunges alarmingly towards the turquoise waters of the Maldives.

That’s where the protests happened, says the hotel employee who does not want me to use his name. He is pointing to the tiny square ahead as we dock at the jetty in the Maldivian capital Male, where protests erupted in 2003 and were as swiftly suppressed.