'Clinton's visit may end cross-border terrorism'

NEW DELHI, MARCH 22. The former U.S. Senator and one of the prominent South Asian watchers, Mr. Larry Pressler, today hoped that the U.S. President, Mr. Bill Clinton's visit to Pakistan might put an end to cross-border terrorism.

``Though I am against his visit to Pakistan since it will legitimise the dictatorship there, I am hopeful that the visit will help to stop cross-border terrorism,'' Mr. Pressler told presspersons during a conference on Chrysalis Capital, a venture investment firm.

``President Clinton should go to Pakistan and tell that dictator (Gen. Pervez Musharraf) who wants to hang his predecessor (Mr. Nawaz Sharif) to stop this nonsense,'' Mr. Pressler, the author of the 1985 amendment that banned arms sale to Pakistan for more than a decade, said.

- PTI

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