The germ of a solution to the tension on the India-Pakistan border was held out by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today when he offered joint patrolling as a means to verify and prevent infiltration and terrorism. Joint patrolling was first suggested as far back as the Simla Agreement in 1971, but was dropped at the insistence of then Pakistan Prime Minister, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
Pakistan gave a guarded response to Vajpayee
