British Foreign Minister Jack Straw praised India and Pakistan on Thursday for their agreement to resume bus service across the military line that divides Kashmir, and urged the two countries to find a way to friendship. He said the decision to restart bus service would help "promote regional stability in South Asia." "War and violence never give fruitful results," he told reporters during a visit to the northern Indian city of Amritsar, where he met Sikh leaders and visited the Golden Temple, their holiest site. On Wednesday, the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan announced that bus service across Kashmir would begin in April, the most concrete outcome yet from a year of peace talks.
