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"Even if we become stronger and more developed, we will not stand in the way of others, still less become a threat to others."
WEN JIABAO, Chinese Premier, speaking in Pakistan during his four-country tour of South Asia last week, on why the region should not fear a stronger China

"I feel that I have arrived in heaven."
RAJA NASEERUDDIN, one of the first passengers on the new bus service linking the Indian and Pakistani sections of Kashmir, a route that has been closed since the 1940s because of hostilities between the two...