take a long time to resolve, even after the military operations are over and you have examples of malayainsurgency going for 15 years. and others which have gone for 10 or 12 years. but we already in the 60 year, so finish it. >> any other questions from the group? there's a follow-up. >> i should have asked three. i can ask at least two. can you just pinpoint or list us like three main cbs, like constant building measures from india and pakistan which we can take up to improve the relationship, the mistrusts which we have, you just mentioned, we can learn from each other militarily or economically is between the governments, what we can do. only three major cbm's. >> i think one good one would be to demilitarize in the kashmir area. they are the two areas where the military's are actually deployed and in a state of readiness for actual conflict on the line of control and the light of contract. not only will that ease the situation there, bring in a factor of longer response times and getting to a conflict situation. i think that's one that should happen. the second one, again, could be

successful ents of counter insurgency campaigns in places like malaya, control of the rders, troops, strong support from the jomarity ma ethnic group. a long-term commitment d a credible local government are lacking in afghanistan. but atwh should e thwhallied forces do? the best afghan policy would be to reduce the number of foreign trompsfr frthe current level of 90,000 to far fewer. perhaps 20,000. in that case, two distinct objectives would r the international community. development and counter terrorism. so says royy stewart writing in the london review of books. that the president of the united states will not be deterred. >> the united states has made a lasting commitment to defeat al- qaida but also to democratically elected sovereign governments. that commitment will not waiver. >> question, is this nation building? is president obama committing to nation building in afghanistan? monica? >> yes, it is. this is the much derided approach when undertaken by president bush in iraq when president obama who was a senator and candidate really had some significant issues with it but

well, today, authorities in malaya announced that they have arrestedive immigration officers for that very cme. >>> we want toeturn tonight to a story w brought you last week. that's thepid spread in britai of the n1 virus. the number of cases is now doubling every week. d a fierce debate has erupt about how to contain the disease. recommended some tat some schools in session stl be closed but governme is resisting that, ying that it's too lat andrew thomas of itreports. >> reporter: thiss how most schools are at the moment. by next week a wil ety for the school holida. if th swine flul. continues, should the stay closed into the autumn? 130 schools tha are temrarily closed to sop swine flu spreading, 113 have reopened official gornment policy now against the mass closure of scols. but could at stall the pandemic? >> the thing abou a pandemic is you have very lar numbe of people becoming infeced and ill in the peak of two, three weeks. schls closed could reduce those numbers 30%, 40%. it doesn't stop beamfrom getting ill it just spreads out that peak a therefore, reduces peak demand.

take a long time to resolve, even after the military operations are over and you have examples of malayainsurgency going for 15 years. and others which have gone for 10 or 12 years. but we already in the 60 year, so finish it. >> any other questions from the group? there's a follow-up. >> i should have asked three. i can ask at least two. can you just pinpoint or list us like three main cbs, like constant building measures from india and pakistan which we can take up to improve the relationship, the mistrusts which we have, you just mentioned, we can learn from each other militarily or economically is between the governments, what we can do. only three major cbm's. >> i think one good one would be to demilitarize in the kashmir area. they are the two areas where the military's are actually deployed and in a state of readiness for actual conflict on the line of control and the light of contract. not only will that ease the situation there, bring in a factor of longer response times and getting to a conflict situation. i think that's one that should happen. the second one, again, could be