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Armitage visit was to obtain Musharraf's commitment: Blackwill

United States Ambassador to India Robert Blackwill has said the purpose of the recent visit by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage to the region was to obtain a commitment by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to end cross-border terrorism permanently and destroy training camps in the Pakistan occupied Kashmir.

"For the Bush administration, an attack on the legislature in Srinagar and the Parliament of India by terrorists is as serious as the terrorist attack on the US, which destroyed the Twin Towers in New York and part of the Pentagon," Blackwill said while addressing the US-India Business Council.

He said the US-India relations were on 'a spectacular ascent'.

Addressing the Council, Secretary General of Confederation of Indian Industry Tarun Das entered a spirited protest against the Time magazine article that has raised serious questions about Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's health.

He said the article was 'non-factual, impressionistic and very, very superficial'.

He said that the US-India Strategy Group, which included former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger found no difficulty communicating with the prime minister.

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