India Press Release Re: Pakistan

SILIGURI, WEST BENGAL: Crowds lined the narrow streets of Siliguri to welcome the first busload of Pakistani construction workers working on the new military base being erected in Gangtok. Defense Minister Malik warmly greeted the leader of the Pakistani delegation, and drew attention to the fact that his parents had been born in Lahore before Partition, and described the leaps and bounds the Pakistan/India relationship had taken over the past decade as being that of two estranged brothers who had "rediscovered the joys of kinship". The Pakistani military base in Gangtok will provide Indian forces with early warning of airspace violations from "potentially nefarious neighbors."