Tom Harkin: “I wanted to take just a little bit of time this morning to again alert Senators and others about troubling new…”

“I wanted to take just a little bit of time this morning to again alert Senators and others about troubling new developments in South Asia after India thumbed its nose at the world community and exploded five underground nuclear weapons. Conditions seem to be spiraling out of control in the nation of India. We now see that a key Indian official, according to the news this morning, a key Indian official is warning Pakistan and making very threatening, provocative statements, about the area that we know as Jammu-Kashmir. Indian Home Minister Advani--there is a picture of him here clenching his fist, saying they were, basically, not going to have a peaceful resolution at all of the situation in Kashmir. I am quoting from the article: While India's previous government had a policy of not making hostile statements about Pakistan, the BJP [that is the party that is now in power in India] as recently as two years ago advocated ``reclaiming'' Pakistan's portion of Kashmir.”