India and Pakistan Remain Divided Over Kashmir
BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR: In India, United States President Bill Clinton on Thursday shifted from high-stakes diplomacy to tourism. With his daughter Chelsea, Mr. Clinton toured a national park and came face-to-face with two endangered Bengal tigers. In the capital of New Delhi, however, regional tensions played out in the streets. Protesters blamed Pakistan for Monday's massacre of dozens of Sikhs in disputed Kashmir. Mr. Clinton travels to Pakistan Saturday. Officials there are mincing no words on the issue that has previously led to war between the two neighbors. CNN's John Raedler reports.</s>JOHN RAEDLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Pakistan celebrated its national day with a display of military might. President Mohammad Rafiq Tarar and military ruler General Pervez Musharraf watched the display, which ranged from horsepower to airpower. Thousands of spectators watched the parade of personnel, and some cheered the procession of Pakistan's latest missiles. "I promise that as far as we can," President Tarar says, "we should make Pakistan stronger and stronger, but we do not believe in an arms race." As the display of military hardware continued, the president addressed India's rule of part of Kashmir. "Today the Kashmiri nation is in the battlefield," he says, "carrying coffins for their freedom and fighting for freedom, and enshallah (ph), they will win the battle and Kashmir will win independence." Later, General Musharraf announced plans for local elections to be held, starting in December. His statement contained little more than he has said before and he gave no timetable for a return to democracy at the national level. John Raedler, CNN, Karachi, Pakistan.