The Group of Ministers set up separate task forces on defence management, intelligence, border management, and internal security. The Vajpayee government constituted the Group to comprehensively examine Indian national security in light of last summer's Kargil war. Following an extensive review of India-China relations, Mira Sinha Bhattacharjea and C. V. Ranganathan urge that the two countries follow ten principles of constructive cooperation. Musharraf said that groups in Pakistan that are engaged in armed activities cannot properly be called terrorists. Pakistani Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider said that the U.S., which last week described Pakistan as both a state supporter of terrorism and a friend of the U.S., is sending mixed signals.
Violence done by oneself or one's allies merits some other name.
Domestic Politics Pakistan's Foreign Office is in the midst of a major reshuffle. New appointments will be made for posts including Ambassador to Russia, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Foreign Office Spokesperson, and High Commissioner to Canada. Commonwealth Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon announced that he will visit Pakistan to ask Chief Executive Pervez Musharraf to issue a timetable for Pakistan's return to democracy and to convey to Musharraf future Commonwealth penalties in the event that no timetable is issued. Three top APHC leaders had a five-hour meeting with the Paksitani High Commissioner to India, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, on May 4. Indian security forces discovered AK-47 rifles, explosives, detonators, remote control devices, and ammunition that had been stockpiled by independent militants operating in Kashmir.