'Maybe Bill can make this an annual pilgrim -- keep Delhi clean and green!'
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Name: M. Hildreth
Email: m_hildreth@hotmail.com
Message:Well if nothing else, this trip has certainly encouraged the MCD patch up Delhi roads and spruce up the city (if only en 'Clinton' route).
Maybe Bill can make this an annual pilgrim - keep Delhi Clean and Green!!
Name: salmaan ahsan
Email: salmaanahsan@hotmail.com
Message: It is not a diplomatic setback for India, rather it is a diplomatic move by Americans to keep making proximity
with Pak .
Name: ATul Garg
Email: atsun@vsnl.com
Message: Big Diplomatic Victory over Pakistan issue.
Name: R Anitha
Email: arudramina@hotmail.com
Message: I don't think Clinton's visit to India will make any difference regarding Pakisthan relations. He has been always nuetral (though indirectly supporting to Pakistan).
Hope it makes any difference to our CM.
Name: B. Narahari
Email: bnarahari@rediffmail.com
Message: Yes, Clinton's decision to visit Pakistan is a diplomatic setback for India. But at the same time it will enable him to see the situation prevailing there and the sufferings of the citizens under the military rule. He should declare Pakistan a terrorist state with immediate effect.
Name: deepak agrawal
Email: monu1985@yahoo.com
Message: why people are worried about clinton's visit to india .the only difference between him 7 other pm ic only this that he is the prime minister of usa
Name: Mohan Chhetri
Email: karma12@druknet.net.bt
Message:
During Clincton's visit to India, what would be the discussion? political social and other issues.
Name: manish agrawal
Email: monu@flashmail.com
Message: I knew it that Mr.Bill will visit pak. He ans almost all US presidents have favoured pak as it can never be a danger to US supremacy(the are too small and unintelligent to become). The hesitation shown was only due to the current situation in pakistan(not kargil, no inflitration but the coup. The US president going to pakistan has given the mushrraff regime the required so called legitimacy. But india has a morale victory as US has shown some resistance never shown in the past. We should be happy for the way US department behaved. (Its very tough not to favour whom you have favored so openly in the past)
Name: amritpal
Email: amritpal@mantraonline.com
Message: clinton shoud give india more grants& buiesness opper- -tunites as campare to china which will boost indias economy
Name: S.Raghav
Email: raghav@schoolmail.com
Message: The American presidents visit is at the right time for him to wittness
what pakistan is upto, so this way he can decide on who the culprit in kargil or in kandhar was.
Name: sankara narayanan
Email: sankar_ven
Message:mr.clinton's visit to pakistan after his indian visit is likely a justification of the military rule in pak
Name: Vikram Singh
Email: vikramsingh@vsnl.com
Message: Where Clinton goes should not be a concern of ours. We should worry only about what we are going to discuss with him and how that will influnce the lives of people in India. Should he go to Pakistan or not is for the govt. of Pakistan to worry about.
Name: suresh
Email: indsuresh@hotmail.com
Message: yes it is too much being made of this visit.relation will remain same that was prevailing earlier before
clinton became president as it is a slight setback for india.
Name: venu gopal reddy
Email: bold75@hotmial.com
Message: For last 50 years US has played Zero-sum game with india and pakistan.
It always tried to treat both contries equal. But the scenario has
changed a lot after end of cold war. Now US has no interests in Pakistan, but concerns of globl terrorism and clandestine spread of nuclear technology. Without effective external intervention Pakistan is in danger of disintegration and turning into a rouge state. If any country can influance and stop Pakistan from disintegration and passing on nuclear technology to other rouge contries, it is US.
So as a sole super power US is doing right thing by engaging Pakistatn. Stable Pakistan is what needed by world, especially India. India also believes on same lines, that is why its responce to Presidents visit to Pakistan has been so mature.
Name: AVINASH DIDWANIA
Email: avi_nash@satyam.net.in
Message:Toomuch is being madeof a visit of a lameduck President who is going to leave White House for good very soon
Name: mudassir aleem
Email: aleem8@hotmail.com
Message: We should make the best of American President's visit and should use this opportunity to corrcet the distorted facts without worrying whether President is visiting Pakistan or not.
We should rather try to expose Pakistan gameplan and put our view clearly.
Name: vidz!
Email: vidhimakhija@hotmail.com
Message: india & t usa should join hands& focus on areas which benefit both t nations,gather what they have in common,develop a sense of cultural understanding,find means to raise funds to help the underpriviledged& t poor,promote peace,lov& brotherhood ,& do everything possible! thatz best 4 both t nations,,,,than seekin their differences@
Name: NandiniRIyer
Email: NandiniRIyer@Yahoo.com
Message: anyone who wants to meet Clinton please tell me about yourself at my E mail address - NandiniRIyer@Yahoo.com
Name: agastee khante
Email: bush139@rediffmail.com
Message: i think we should really make the best use of this chance
after all an american president is commin to india after 21 years
no joke right
we have to increase our trade with it or else we r in for another 50 years of nothing
Name: dureja
Email: durejabk@rediff.com
Message: YES, it can be said without hesitation that Bill's visit to Pak is a setback to indo-american relations. It is a moral defeat to India. If one thinks USA is only one to spoil its relations with India, it would be wrong. Let's hope he does not meddle with the Kashmir prob.
Name: RCH Mahesh Babu
Email: rch_mahesh@rediffmailcom
Message: India has to take maximum gain with Clinton's visit after all he is the supream political commander of the only existing SuperPower.
Clinton as a US president has all rights to visit Pak and India should not be in the impression that it is a setback to her by understanding the fact that Pak has better relations with US than India from so many years.
Afetr all US always wants and trys to gain more than their small counerparts in all its endeavours.
Indian Govt has to make sure that US President should take their present stand on J&K and in no way Clinton deviate from their existing stand.
We should make US feel and consider India as one of their best Friend.
We must stick to our stand on CTBT.
Since he is our Guest we should make him feel touched and when he leave he should carry rich memories of our Culture.
Name: Babu
Email: cools@uswestmail.net
Message: There is no harm on Clinton
visiting Pakistan. Do not
conclude that iam a Pakistani
..iam an Indian.
The schedule of the trip
clearly indicates that the
focus of the trip is only
India; this is the first whip
against Pervez. And this is an
indirect message to Pervez to
restore to democracy and stop
aiding the terrorists.
In his brief-stopover,
Clinton is not going to
appreciate or have any
business done with Pervez;
Everybody knows this
and then why should we ( the
Indians ) should make it a
big issue.
If Clinton neglects Pakistan
completely, then it would be a
fact that Kashmir is a
dangerous place in earth;
Because Pervez won't hesitate
to load nuclear war-heads in his missiles
pointed towards India.
So let us feel content on
Clinton's understanding of
India's position.
Name: abc
Email:abc@hotmail.com
Message:Yes a diplomatic setback
Name: N.V.Srinivas
Email: vas_72@hotmail.com
Message: if Clinton had visited 2 or 3 years before it might had made some difference.Now he is coming at the fag end of his tenure what ever he does will be of little i,portance once the elections are over a new govt will be formed and they may have a new foreign policy.And americans should have learnt their lesson from bin laden's activities instead he is going to pakistan.god help the americans.India will neither gain substantially nor loose enormously with clinton's visit
Name: Andrew
Email: andrjoe@arbornet.com
Message: I believe the Clinto`s vistit to the Indian sub-continet would bring about a lasting peace in the area which is turning to be the hostest spot on the planet and there is great danger of flare up over Kashmir.
I hope the leaders in the region would give up their rigid attitudes and address their core and historic issues. Once the main issues are target and the region would emerge as a potential area for development and economic activity.
I see in Clinton`s visit a ray of hope for the people of region in general and the oppressed and tyranised people especially Kashmiris in particular. The America has the guts, means and the world standing to force the two
countries to engage meaningfully with each other and solve the long pending issues and to save the sub-continent from impending nuclear dissaster.
Name: Sunny
Email: sunn_sun@hotmail.com
Message: Mr Clinton...Stop acting like
a global policeman. Treat us
with respect other wise you
are not welcome to our country.
You talk about CTBT...you have
the biggest pile of nukes...
U call for non poliferation..
you blindly watch china
transfer tech to pak...you
talk about arm race...you
are the biggest supplier of
weapons in the world...you
are spending millions of
dollars every year to obtain
miniature nuclear fussion
deives.....you talk of moral..
but you lost ur character to
Monica...Come On Clinton..
talk to me about Vietnam..
Korean..India..pak..you
western powers divide people
and rule...india -pak, west-
east germany (now united), N-S
Veitnam..E -timor-indonesia..
kosovo--yugoslovakia...come.
people of asia specially
india--pak get close to each
other...be freinds..then you
can kick of immoral people
like Clinton with ease..
Regards to All
Name: K VENKAT NARAYANA
Email: k_venkatnarayana@yahoo.com
Message: NO, THERE WILL NOT BE ANY SORT OF DIPLOMATIC SET BACK FOR INDIA.
IT WILL CONTINUE THE RELATIONS BEING ENJOYED AS EARLIER. BUT IT ONLY A TRICK OF PAKISTAN BY BOOMARANG THE THINGS THAT THE RELATIONS WILL BE DISTURBED.
Name: gsraju
Email: gsraju@email.com
Message: declare pakistan as a terrorist country
Name: P.R.Narayanaswami
Email: pr_ramani
Message: Clinton's visit will not make any change. As long as the mind set of the Pakistanis change drastically and develop a sense of brotherlihood with India, even if God comes to earth nothing will change.
Name: Jayachandran
Email: mbplfat@md4.vsnl.net.in
Message: Heartly welcome to India
Name: shashi
Email: shashidesai@mailcity.com
Message:Hi,
US president's visit to India
is matter of real importance.
We all know how US has become super
power after the debacle of USSR. so
we cant hide this reality and ignore
US. We need to relook into our foreign
policy and it should be towards having
better relationship with US.I think we
made blunder mistake by ignoring US
all these 50 years..
And having country like pakistan as our
neighbour we need to be trusted friend of
US to contain PAK.
And visit to pakistan by US president is matter
of shame to US not india.
shashi
Name: GIRISH
Email: girish_cpg@rediff.com
Message: It will be the greatest opportunity for the indian peoples to demonstrate their skills in software.
Name: Raj Jadhav
Email: rpjadhav@usa.net
Message: Not to worry whtter Mr. Clinton goes to Pakistan or Afaganistan..
We must be always awake and agressive!! May be Gandhian do not like it.
But we must ready for any consequences and try to bring home a lot with the such helps.
They may never become India's friends..
They are Ameriacans....!!
Name: harsha
Email: xnadh@hotmail.com
Message: Clinton is a lameduck...?Why?
Name: HSG Rao
Email: commander@rediffmail.com
Message: Although, Clinton's visit to Pakistan will not have much impact on indian Policy matters as regard Indo-American relation, definetly it will boost the morality of and provides some sort of soft approach to Mushraff's blodless coup and escalate the tension on Indo-pak border. It is not surprising that Islamabad may conceive one more kargil situation very shortly.
Name: Kamal Taparia
Email: ktaparia@hotmail.com
Message: It is a great news for India that an American President is visiting the country after 22 years. There is nothing wrong to accept that US is the most powerful country in the world right now in all fields. So it is a great opportunity for India to revive its ecomony (if at all our politicians want) and get other benefits and try to encash as much as possible.
But unfortunately, our media - one of the worst - is not at all interested to discuss the major issues which Indian govt. should concern while Clinton is in India - the important points needed discussions. Instead of that all the leading newspapers are discussing regarding his stay, securities, money spent by Naidu, the list of invitees for dinner, the dilemma of Mr Bajpayee to select his list of invitees as he can't leave any persons of his NDA - is that what is to be done?
In all these stupid things, we are forgetting the actual purpose of the visit. Could our media be more serious and talk about the main points?
Name: R.Majumdar
Email: ranju47@rediff.com
Message: A lameduck president who is coming to have a bit of fun on the advice of his wife & daughter. Would cause the country to spend a lot of money on securities & go back after some vague joint declarations
Name: sundaram bala
Email: balu_sundaram@yahoo.com
Message: It is shows that americans are still supporting pakisthanis even though they are world known terrorists. Defintly, it is not a setback to INDIA. we indians living in USA, expecting INDIA will have a new relationship with USA.
Name: venkat
Email: venkat60@satyam.net.in
Message: we nneed US more than they need us.
we have been too ungrateful
to US. for all the help recd
since 50's.
Name: R.PALANIAPPAN
Email: pazhaniappan@usa.net
Message: welcome Mr.President!
our country is great and
inspite of all these poverty,
illiteracy,poor infrastructure
worst politicians you ever
encounter in your life, we are
people with good humour and
happy and always smiling- one
quality you dont see in west.
Name: shrirang rao
Email: shrirang_rao@hotmail.com
Message: this is a very oppurtunistic
move by washington....
despite the fact that democracy
has not been restored in pakistan
and the earlier us claims that
bill wont visit pak till normalcy
was retored...this move to visit
pakistan would strain the indo-us relations
Name: V.Rajinikanth
Email: rajinikanthv@hotmail.com
Message: First of all, I would like to say that Mr.Bill Clinton must have recognised the immense potential of the Indian Community and the growth of Indian particularly in the IT Industry. I also appreciate the Steps taken by the Indian Government to make this visit as low profile as possible in our Capital. The contribution of Indians immigrated to US cannot be underestimated. So this should be considered as a win-win situation particularly for India.
Today US can no longer remain hostile to India considering her enormous potential for human resources. The visit to Pakistan , i think must be a name-sake visit, considering his visit to Bangladesh. The purpose must be to clearly outline US views towards international terrorism and the enormous role the Pakistan plays in it. India's profound views towards partial treatment of CTBT expressed by the Western Countries towards her, and her confirmed view that surrender of all nuclear arms in a common pool only will then we will/should sign the treaty. So the chance has come for us to make it clear to Mr.President that it is they who are dependent on our human resource potential and their contributions and not us for their technology and the Government should make use of this belief and act accordingly. Thanks Rediff.com for giving me an opportunity to express my views.
Rajinikanth.V
Name: Veerendra Mohan
Email: maj_mohan@rediff.com
Message: Neither clinton could be treated as lameduck nor would his visit to PAK cause any setback to the diplomatic relations with our country. It, however, is aimed at improving bilateral relations.Its good that he goes to PAK after visiting us and clarifies our stand to them and advise them to restore friendly relations. If he can not do so-well it any case would not be able to make any difference to us.
Name: Sukhvinder Singh
Email: sukhvinder_s@hotmail.com
Message: Clinton's visit is not going to affect Indo-US relations. Clinton is just coming to shop here and see Taj Mahal. Rest is just fun.
Name: AK Sengupta
Email: aryaseng@hotmail.com.
Message: Clinton Visit to India must be accepted by us as an huge opportunity to make good in the international arena. We must grasp the economic advantage through aggressive globalisation possibilities with the help of US. Globalisation is not a dirty word as many of our "swadeshi" and leftist politicians would like us to believe. In fact, if we can play our cards right, globalisation will create unforeseen wealth in this country, lead to unprecedented growth in emloyment and enhance living conditions of all our people, instead of benefits of industry, commerce and agriculture going only to a tiny group of self serving capitalists, rich farmers and cunning politicians as at the present time.
From the political perspective also, we must seize the opportunity of securing a permanent seat in th UN Security Council by acepting Clinton's condition of moving towards a solution of the Kashmir Dispute. I think India should accept the prospect of holding a plebicite there, but under the following conditions.
1) Pakistan must wihdraw from the occupied "Azad" Kashmir, following which India will also remove her own troups from this side of the LOC
2) The referendum should give the people of Kashmir three options: acceding to India or to Pakistan, or becoming a self governed state ( like Bhutan).
3) The Jammu and the Ladak regions of the state should be given the additional options of separating from the state of Jammu and Kashmir and remain as part of India
4) The whole operation of the plebicite should be held under UN auspices, three months after the withdrawl of Indian and Pakistani troops from the state, provided no militant actvity takes place in the meantime.
Name: Vishal Sagar
Email: sagarvishal@hotmail.com
Message: We should welcome Mr.Clinton as we do with all foreign Dignitories. At the same time should not expect a world from it.
Name: azeemuddin khaja
Email: azeem_stealh@rediffmail.com
Message:OUR COUNTRY SHOULD IMPROVE TIES WITH
NEIGHBOURS TO PREVENT ANOTHER
KARGIL-2.
Name: johny
Email: kirongum@satyam.net.in
Message: i think a lot is being made out of a visit which is not going to acheive anything for either pakistan, india or the usa. this visit is going to be a waste of money and time for the people of both the countries, except of the media which is of course going to enjoy the circus and show it to the world.
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