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Today we have 25,000 airliners deliver 10.7 million people per day to 106,000 locations throughout the world in less than 20 hours.SpaceX promises that in a few years the same number of people will visit the same number of locations in less than 30 minutes by rocket. Depending on how quickly we refill and empty and load up the rockets we could get by with as few as 1,600 rockets to do the same work as 25,000 jet aircraft. They would use less fuel, and even if they cost more each, the airlines would spend far less on equipment than they do today.Our skies would be clear of contrails.Now, its easy to see, that once people are that familiar with rockets, and once rockets are as inexpensive and reliable at jet aircraft today, we need only 400 rockets to launch 1.3 million people per day along with the fuel to boost them to Mars or the Moon, permanently off world.At this rate - 1/8th the number of people who fly commercial jet liners today - the world is depopulated in 22 years.The population off world rises to over 9 billions. However, the number at any one location falls as the number of destinations increase.We will go to Mars certainly. Mars has the same surface area as the land area of Earth, approximately. Without a biosphere to worry about we are free to use self replicating solar powered utility fog, that takes CO2 out of the atmosphere makes oxygen and carbon and turns the carbon into the carbon allotrope diamond - we have the means to transform Mars in a way that’s impossible to do on Earth. Not recommended either, without an existence proof of its use off world.So, diamond domes with Earth normal environment will be available widely. With AI, advanced robots, closed cycle ecology and self replicating utility fog - living standards will be very high. This will attract people off world.From Mars its easier to get to Ceres and Vesta than it is to get to Earth. So, people will naturally spread out from there. Mars will be the gate way to the outer planets and the asteroids.Most common town will consist of a 7600 ft diameter diamond sphere - nestled in a 300 foot saucer depression - with a 1 mile diameter and 3.14 mile circumference cylinder that’s 1 mile tall. This spins on a maglev track that’s moving at 196 mph to produce a 1 gee centripetal force 19.5% from vertical on the wall’s surface. Living on this wall is like living in San Francisco! about 60,000 people live in each cylinder. The base of the cylinder has 90 moving sidewalks each moving a little over 2 mph speed relative to its neighbors. People walk from the low gee central park to the high gee living area. Above the moving side walk, moving with the cylinder is a vertical farm - which recycles all waste from the cylinder. This is like a grounded space colony. The basement of each building on the wall, the outside of the wall - has maglev vehicles stuck like refrigerator magnets to the outside. These move anywhere in the town in minutes, and easily move off the wall altogether using a slider track at the base outside the maglev ring. These maglev personal rapid transit vehicles move automatically anywhere in the town, and through evacuated tunnels between towns. 250,000 towns covering 1.4% of the Martian surface - each 27 miles from one another - forming a hexagonal close packed array - house up to 15 billion people. A network of ‘seeds’ can be planted in a network throughout Mars in less than a year - and seeds can flower when people arrive from Earth. Towns can be abandoned and go back to seed state - when population falls.Of course Diemos and Phobos will be developed before the asteroids. In fact the technology to transform the asteroids, will first be tried on Diemos and Phobos. Success there will inspire movement beyond Mars. These tiny moons will be processed into Space Colonies using advanced self replicating utility fog that is nuclear powered and uses silicon rather than carbon as its building block.Mars will also be a gate way to Venus. It will be easy for Martians to get to Venus because of low Martian gravity. On Venus we will use the same trick of converting CO2 into diamond and oxygen - but instead of living on the surface of Venus, we will live in the stratosphere where temperatures and pressures are bearable. The air is dense enough to build floating cities buoyed up by the dense air! Laser powered rockets, powered from very strong lasers orbiting Venus, will fly to orbit energising the inert CO2 as propellant. To meet with the interplanetary ships arriving from Mars.Venus covered with floating cities has the potential of 3x the land area of Earth.Colonization of Venus - WikipediaWe won’t need centrifuges, because Venus gravity is close to Earth’s. Here 750,000 cities of 60,000 each connected to one another via hypersonic laser powered aircraft -each 27 miles from one another - long range travel via ballistic laser rocket/jet. All powered by very strong lasers from space.Ceres and Vesta will be developed by settlers who look beyond Mars and see the success of Diemos and Phobos colonies.Institute of Atomic-Scale EngineeringThey will be dismantled and the water and other materials used to create 44,000 Bishop Ring colonies, each twice the size of France! This will total 185x the surface area of Earth! Here people will truly spread out!Mercury has water! Locked up in ice caps on its poles. Mercury’s high density suggests it is filled with metals. Its proximity to the Sun means that sunlight is 9,089.35 W/m2 - this combination of raw material and energy will mean that despite its position deep in the gravity well of the Sun, Mercury will be developed to enrich humanity and life throughout the solar system- as life quickens and spreads.The nitrogen and water locked up in the moons of the outer solar system will be tapped.Just as understanding the quantum physics of electrons unlocked our ability to create superconductors and supermagnets, continuing advances in our understanding of matter unlock other super materials. Important to our conquest and use of resources in space, the development of perfect mirrors mean that very intense light can be processed efficiently.This not only allows us to produce photon rockets of exceptional performance, but also operate on or very near the solar surface.Perfect mirror - WikipediaThis lets us collect light on or orbiting near the solar surface as well as solar wind and flares, and use the materials and energy to make self replicating solar panels. In this way we can enclose the sun and use all of its energy. By creating a holographic array on the backside of these solar panels, we can beam energy to wherever we want. Including reproducing whatever light conditions we like on any of the planets moons or asteroids orbiting the sun. In fact, we can sense all objects around the sun, and make it so no one observing the sun would see any difference.This will permit us to use photonic thrusters and laser light sails to visit other star systems. Once in those other star systems, we will drop self replicating solar panels onto the surface of those stars, and extend the network to encompass the galaxy.Prospective of Photon Propulsion for Interstellar FlightHome (AIAA)The sun converts over 4.2 million metric tons of matter to energy each second. Capturing all of this gives us the means to clear the solar system of people in less than one year - of course - once colonies are established on other star systems - people will come back.This much light energy using the solar sails described allows us to produce more than 128 trillion tons of force. Accelerating at 1 gee for 450 years star time but only 6 years ship time- gets us to a 5000 to 1 time dilation. At 5000 to 1 time dilation coasting for 20 years - spans the galaxy. A phased array across the entire solar surface permits forming beams very precisely.128 trillion tons divided by 450 years is 284.4 billion tons per year. At 71.1 tons per person, about the weight of a luxury cruise ship per person, this is 4 billion people per year. So 2 to 3 years clears the solar system - of course at 4% per year and 1.2% growth per year - it will take about 22 years to reduce the number of people around the Sun to those who really do not wish to travel. Though a percentage of their off spring likely will.So, what’s the end point?Well, once we leave Earth our range will extend faster than our population grows. With self replicating machinery, we break the Malthuisan logic of exponential versus linear growth. We enter an age of endless abundance.However, as we increase energy levels our speed increases, but time dilates. That means our reproductive rate slows - for moving populations. Also, risk of loss scales with distance traveled. So, even if moving in a starship is as safe as sitting at home - there is a point where loss of population exceeds reproductive rates.In other words, the reason the cosmos is not populated, has to do with this relationship between risk, time dilation and reproduction.The reason the Earth is over populated and polluted today, is because we have yet to become space faring. We have avoided and delayed this decision for a century now. Fact is, sessile populations die, mobile populations thrive.What about the Earth?Population growth rate is about 0.9% per year these days. Reproductive rates are less now than in the 1960s. They wre never above 1.2% - yet bold and adventurous individuals choose to inhabit a new frontier if given the opportunity - and they account for 4% of the population. So, all things being equal, people will tend to leave where they are at a higher rate than they reproduce. While others will come from space and back propagate, this will take time given the limitations of light speed. There will also be a diffusion outward, assuming random choice of destinations. However, early choices, for the first 200 years or so, will always be for unsettled stars rather than settled ones. As Arthur Clarke once said, there will come a time when most of the human race won’t be able to point to the part of the sky where the Sun and Earth are. Any more than the Italian descendants in America can describe Capitaline Hill as it was in the 18th century. Despite the fact their ancestors lived there.This is why population will decline from 7.8 billions today to 0.5 billions in 25 years - or 11 synodic periods after the first Mars colony is established. And it will be established on the first trip. This may happen as soon as 2024. So, well before the 100th anniversary of Sputnik, more people will be living off world than on Earth.So now I can answer your question.Those who remain on Earth will have made a choice to be here. They will do so out a deep caring and respect for its native and natural wonders. They will also exploit in a sustainable way the great diversity to provide seed stock to space colonies throghout the solar system and beyond.At some point, between year 25 and year 50 after settlement starts - the self replicating utility fog, or some variant of it - will be used to correct the excesses of the industrial age we are at the end of - and re-establish a pre-industrial balance.This will clean up the oceans, clean up the air, and so forth.The air right now is 406 ppm by volume and should be 285 ppm by volume CO2. Oxygen levels also are falling. This is easily corrected by the self replicating solar powered utility fog developed to process Venus and Mars atmospheres into colonies. A small package of properly designed utility fog will take all this excess carbon and produce utility fog of it - in about a week. It will take a day of darkness - to process the very last. The foglets will then be used to clean up the plastics in the oceans - and radioactive wastes and anything else that is a continuing blight on the planet.An exciting possibility is that all cities and factories, farms and homes on the surface of Earth are removed, and the remaining inhabitants of Earth live in floating cities like the folks of Venus.This was proposed by Buckminster Fuller in 1962. He called them Cloud Nine Cities.

“Should gun owners express their protest of the VA gun ban by not going to VA as tourists and not spending their money there?”I’ll buy that.First, stop all tourism from gun owners. Flood the Governor with letters stating WHY you refuse to go to Virginia. If you have to drive through, say from West Virginia to North Carolina, fill up in West Virginia and/or North Carolina and do NOT purchase gas in Virginia. Don’t even stop at rest areas and purchase drinks or snacks. Don’t shop there.Virginia needs tourism as an industry. Without it, they take a hurt. So be it.Boycott anything and everything that comes FROM Virginia. According to Wikipedia, these businesses are based in Virginia.AAAFMAAA&N Electric CooperativeAlcalde and FayAllbritton CommunicationsAlliant Merchant ServicesAlliant TechsystemsAlpha Natural ResourcesAmerican Safety Razor CompanyAmerican WoodmarkThe Analysis CorporationArcaMax PublishingArena Racing USAAthena TechnologiesBBeacon Building ProductsBlue Mountain BreweryBrainwareBreezeway RecordsBristol Broadcasting CompanyBWE Media NetworksCC-More SystemsCalkain CompaniesCapterraCFA InstituteColgan AirConcert Communications ServicesCopper Fox DistilleryCounty RecordsCrenshaw CompanyCrestline Hotels & ResortsDDavidson'sDelta Career Education CorporationDevils Backbone Brewing CompanyDiet-to-GoDollar TreeDorian RecordingsEEberle AssociatesElevation BurgerEP AviationEvangelical Council for Financial AccountabilityFFarm Fresh Food & PharmacyFederated WirelessFilament ProductionsFood City (K-VA-T)GGlobalLogicGoCanvasGrand MartHHC2 HoldingsHPTiHT MotorsportsHuss & DaltonIInfodata SystemsInternational Launch ServicesKKesmaiKwikpointLLake Taylor Transitional Care HospitalLandAmerica Financial GroupLaserShipLodestone GamesLumber LiquidatorsLumos NetworksMM.C. Dean, Inc.Markel CorporationMarriott CorporationMars Hill AudioMarstel-DayMcDonough Bolyard PeckMCI Inc.MedecoMHz NetworksMonticello MediaMorgan–McClure MotorsportsMt. Vernon Sleep GalleriesMusictodayNNavy Mutual Aid AssociationNeathawk Dubuque & PackettNeustarList of companies headquartered in Northern VirginiaNOVA Pro WrestlingNTelosNTP, Inc.OOld Dominion Electric CooperativeOwens & MinorPPBSPlanning and Learning TechnologiesPlow & HearthPostalWatch IncorporatedPublish2RRebel RecordsRockbridge AssociatesRoy Rogers RestaurantsRubbermaid Commercial ProductsSSalient CRGTSCG International RiskSCI ConsultingScripps League NewspapersShentelSmithfield FoodsSmithfield Packing CompanySono LuminusList of space companies and facilities in VirginiaStandard Performance Evaluation CorporationTTahoe SmokelessTimes Community MediaTorc RoboticsUUS AirwaysUSA LivingVVerne GlobalVersarVSE CorporationWWilliamsburg Pottery FactoryWorldwide Assurance for Employees of Public AgenciesXXTARXybernautZZero Gravity CorporationWrite them and tell them why you and your family will no longer be purchasing their products.If you hunt, don’t hunt in Virginia. The same for fishing. You have to buy State and local permits, damage stamps, and all that. So, don’t. Don’t rent cabins there, either. Go to West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, or Kentucky.If they don’t recognize your concealed carry permit, which they will probably stop doing if they haven’t already, stop going.Tell the governor that you don’t feel safe since criminals can own firearms but law abiding people cannot. That his Stalinist views do not reflect YOUR views.Sadly, the people IN Virginia can’t do much. The things in the cities get to determine the laws for people who don’t live in the city. Richmond gets to decide what someone in Bristol, Va, can do, and it’s clear across the state. They HUNT there, where city people can’t even walk in the woods without fear. It’s not fair.As one put it, Southwest Virginia should leave Northern Virginia and join West Virginia, where the people are more alike. The cities should NOT make laws for people who do not live in the city. But, Democrats are communists, so they want to make everyone the same, as long as they are higher up and immune to the laws.I think Virginia requires online taxes for purchases, otherwise I would say to purchase everything online if you live in Virginia. As much as you can, go to another state, a pro-gun state, to purchase what you can. This should be really easy in border towns, like Bluefield and Bristol.Flood the representatives in the Senate and Congress with letters stating why you won’t do business there, either. If you can, write the towns that you would have visited. I seem to recall that most Counties protested against Blackface, so show them your support but state that until the STATE laws change, you cannot go there. This should help put more pressure on Blackface and help oust him, since democrats aren’t like they should be. They will overlook his racism to push communist gun bans, collections and other laws.If you MUST go there, target pro-gun businesses and give them your money. Yes, they still pay taxes, but if you can drive the democratic anti-gunners into bankruptcy, then he’ll lose power. Anywhere that supports banning firearms, avoid like the plague. This shouldn’t be too hard, really. It’s the CITY people who support the governor and his bans, not the hard working country people who aren’t brainwashed. If you get attacked, robbed, or worse, try to SUE the state for making it unsafe. Heck, file endless lawsuits to keep them tied up and cost them money, like inmates do with prisons.If you can, take flights out and into North Carolina or West Virginia instead of Virginia. Do everything you can to avoid the state and hurt it’s economy. Trust me, if he does like Obama, the coal industry will soon be attacked, hurting workers there. If I recall correctly, Bluefield was a mining town and will really be taking a hit under this commie. If you plan on buying a home there, don’t. You might be able to get one cheaper across the state line.Truckers, forced by law to purchase fuel in every state, are stuck. If they could go around, or have products shipped from areas that do not go through Virginia, that would also hurt them. Truckers protesting would be great, if they would. If people shouldn’t ship products out of the state, or into, it would force changes faster. Imagine all the wears that, shipped to Virginia ports, would be stuck there. Or, the stores that needed produce and supplies not having any way to restock. Eventually even the democrats would be forced to turn on the governor and demand changes or his recall.It’s clear that politicians won’t do anything because they are “good people.” They will have to feel the will of the people by the vote and by the power of the Yankee dollar. If they no longer get donations to their causes, in addition to not getting votes, they won’t last long in office.Who needs violence? It’s the last resort. Violence gets “them” the weapons they need to justify their aggression against the people and the Constitution.

Hello,Taking the history as witness,1954 - The accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India is ratified by the state's constituent assembly.1957 - The Jammu and Kashmir constituent assembly approves a constitution. India, from the point of the 1954 ratification and 1957 constitution, begins to refer to Jammu and Kashmir as an integral part of the Indian union.1963 - Following the 1962 Sino-Indian war, the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan - Swaran Singh and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto - hold talks under the auspices of the British and Americans regarding the Kashmir dispute. The specific contents of those talks have not yet been declassified, but no agreement was reached. In the talks, "Pakistan signified willingness to consider approaches other than a plebiscite andIndia recognised that the status of Kashmir was in dispute and territorial adjustments might be necessary," according to a declassified US state department memo (dated January 27, 1964).1964 - Following the failure of the 1963 talks, Pakistan refers the Kashmir case to the UN Security Council.1965 - India and Pakistan fight their second war. The conflict begins after a clash between border patrols in April in the Rann of Kutch (in the Indian state of Gujarat), but escalates on August 5, when between 26,000 and 33,000 Pakistani soldiers cross the ceasefire line dressed as Kashmiri locals, crossing into Indian-administered Kashmir.Infantry, armour and air force units are involved in the conflict while it remains localised to the Kashmir theatre, but as the war expands, Indian troops cross the international border at Lahore on September 6. The largest engagement of the war takes place in the Sialkot sector, where between 400 and 600 tanks square off in an inconclusive battle.By September 22, both sides agree to a UN mandated ceasefire, ending the war that had by that point reached a stalemate, with both sides holding some of the other's territory.1966 - On January 10, 1966, Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahdaur Shastri and Pakistani President Ayub Khan sign an agreement at Tashkent (now in Uzbekistan), agreeing to withdraw to pre-August lines and that economic and diplomatic relations would be restored.1971 - India and Pakistan go to war a third time, this time over East Pakistan. The conflict begins when the central Pakistani government in West Pakistan, led by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, refuses to allow Awami League leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a Bengali whose party won the majority of seats in the 1970 parliamentary elections, to assume the premiership.A Pakistani military crackdown on Dhaka begins in March, but India becomes involved in the conflict inDecember, after the Pakistani air force launches a pre-emptive strike on airfields inIndia's northwest.India then launches a coordinated land, air and sea assault on East Pakistan. The Pakistani army surrenders at Dhaka, and its army of more than 90,000 become prisoners of war. Hostilities lasted 13 days, making this one of the shortest wars in modern history.East Pakistan becomes the independent country of Bangladesh on December 6, 1971.1972 - Pakistani Prime Minister Zulifiqar Ali Bhutto and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi sign an agreement in the Indian town of Simla, in which both countries agree to "put an end to the conflict and confrontation that have hitherto marred their relations and work for the promotion of a friendly and harmonious relationship and the establishment of a durable peace in the subcontinent". Both sides agree to settle any disputes "by peaceful means".The Simla Agreement designates the ceasefire line of December 17, 1971, as being the new "Line-of-Control (LoC)" between the two countries, which neither side is to seek to alter unilaterally, and which "shall be respected by both sides without prejudice to the recognised position of either side".1974 - The Kashmiri state government affirms that the state "is a constituent unit of the Union of India". Pakistan rejects the accord with the Indian government.On May 18, India detonates a nuclear device at Pokhran, in an operation codenamed "Smiling Buddha". India refers to the device as a "peaceful nuclear explosive".1988 - The two countries sign an agreement that neither side will attack the other's nuclear installations or facilities. These include "nuclear power and research reactors, fuel fabrication, uranium enrichment, isotopes separation and reprocessing facilities as well as any other installations with fresh or irradiated nuclear fuel and materials in any form and establishments storing significant quantities of radio-active materials".Both sides agree to share information on the latitudes and longitudes of all nuclear installations. This agreement is later ratified, and the two countries share information on January 1 each year since then.1989 - Armed resistance to Indian rule in the Kashmir valley begins. Muslim political parties, after accusing the state government of rigging the 1987 state legislative elections, form militant wings.Pakistan says that it gives its "moral and diplomatic" support to the movement, reiterating its call for the earlier UN-sponsored referendum.India says that Pakistan is supporting the insurgency by providing weapons and training to fighters, terming attacks against it in Kashmir "cross-border terrorism". Pakistan denies this.Militant groups taking part in the fight in Kashmir continue to emerge through the 1990s, in part fuelled by a large influx of "mujahideen" who took part in the Afghan war against the Soviets in the 1980s.1991 - The two countries sign agreements on providing advance notification of military exercises, manoeuvres and troop movements, as well as on preventing airspace violations and establishing overflight rules.1992 - A joint declaration prohibiting the use of chemical weapons is signed in New Delhi.1996 - Following a series of clashes, military officers from both countries meet at the LoC in order to ease tensions.1998 - India detonates five nuclear devices at Pokhran. Pakistan responds by detonating six nuclear devices of its own in the Chaghai Hills. The tests result in international sanctions being placed on both countries. In the same year, both countries carry out tests of long-range missiles.1999 - Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee meets with Nawaz Sharif, his Pakistani counterpart, in Lahore. The two sign the Lahore Declaration, the first major agreement between the two countries since the 1972 Simla Accord. Both countries reaffirm their commitment to the Simla Accord, and agree to undertake a number of 'Confidence Building Measures' (CBMs).Some of the diplomatic gains are eroded, however, after the Kargil conflict breaks out in May. Pakistani forces and Kashmiri fighters occupy strategic positions on the Indian side of the LoC, prompting an Indian counter offensive in which they are pushed back to the other side of the original LoC.Kargil is the first armed conflict between the two neighbours since they officially conducted nuclear weapons tests.In October 1999, General Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani chief of army staff, leads a military coup, deposing Nawaz Sharif, the then prime minister, and installing himself as the head of the government.2001 - Tensions along the Line of Control remain high, with 38 people killed in an attack on the Kashmiri assembly in Srinagar. Following that attack, Farooq Abdullah, the chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir, calls on the Indian government to launch a full-scale military operation against alleged training camps in Pakistan.In July, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee meet for a two-day summit in the Indian city of Agra. That summit collapses after two days, with both sides unable to reach agreement on the core issue of Kashmir.On December 13, an armed attack on the Indian parliament in New Delhi leaves 14 people dead. India blames Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad for the attacks.The attacks lead to a massing of India's and Pakistan's militaries along the LoC. The standoff only ends in October 2002, after international mediation.2002 - President Musharraf pledges that Pakistan will combat extremism on its own soil, but affirms that the country has a right to Kashmir.2003 - After Musharraf calls for a ceasefire along the LoC during a UN General Assembly meeting in September, the two countries reach an agreement to cool tensions and cease hostilities across the defacto border.2004 - Vajpayee and Musharraf hold direct talks at the 12th SAARC summit in Islamabad in January, and the two countries' foreign secretaries meet later in the year. This year marks the beginning of the Composite Dialogue Process, in which bilateral meetings are held between officials at various levels of government (including foreign ministers, foreign secretaries, military officers, border security officials, anti-narcotics officials and nuclear experts). In November, on the eve of a visit to Jammu and Kashmir, the new Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, announces that India will be reducing its deployment of troops there.2006 - India redeploys 5,000 troops from Jammu and Kashmir, citing an "improvement" in the situation there, but the two countries are unable to reach an agreement on withdrawing forces from the Siachen glacier.In September, President Musharraf and Prime Minister Singh agree to put into place an Indo-Pak institutional anti-terrorism mechanism.2007 - On February 18, the train service between India and Pakistan (the Samjhauta Express) is bombed near Panipat, north of New Delhi. Sixty-eight people are killed, and dozens injured.The fifth round of talks regarding the review of nuclear and ballistic missile-related CBMs is held as part of the Composite Dialogue Process. The second round of the Joint Anti-Terrorism Mechanism (JATM) is also held.2008 - India joins a framework agreement between Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan on a $7.6bn gas pipeline project. A series of Kashmir-specific CBMs are also agreed to (including the approval of a triple-entry permit facility).In July, India blames Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) directorate for a bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, which kills 58 and injures another 141.In September, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Singh formally announce the opening of several trade routes between the two countries.In October, cross-LoC trade commences, though it is limited to 21 items and can take place on only two days a week.On November 26, armed gunmen open fire on civilians at several sites in Mumbai,India. The attacks on the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, the Oberoi Trident Hotel, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Leopold Cafe, Cama Hospital, Nariman House Jewish community centre, Metro Cinema, St Xavier's College and in a lane near the Times ofIndia office, prompt an almost three-day siege of the Taj, where gunmen remain holed up until all but one of them are killed in an Indian security forces operation. More than 160 people are killed in the attacks.Ajmal Kasab, the only attacker captured alive, says the attackers were members of Lashkar-e-Taiba.In the wake of the attacks, India breaks off talks with Pakistan.2009 - The Pakistani government admits that the Mumbai attacks may have been partly planned on Pakistani soil, while vigorously denying allegations that the plotters were sanctioned or aided by Pakistan's intelligence agencies.Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Indian Prime Minister Singh meet on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, issuing a joint statement charting future talks. Singh rules out, however, the resumption of the Composite Dialogue Process at the present time.The Indian government continues to take a stern line with Pakistan, however, with its coalition government saying that it is up to Pakistan to take the first step towards the resumption of substantive talks by cracking down on militant groups on its soil.In August, India gives Pakistan a new dossier of evidence regarding the Mumbai attacks, asking it to prosecute Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the head of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, an Islamic charity with ties to Lashkar-e-Taiba.2010 - In January, Pakistani and Indian forces exchange fire across the LoC in Kashmir, the latest in a string of such incidents that have led to rising tension in the area.In February, India and Pakistan's foreign secretaries meet in New Delhi for talks. This meeting is followed by the two countries' foreign ministers meeting in Islamabad in July.In May, Ajmal Kasab is found guilty of murder, conspiracy and of waging war againstIndia in the Mumbai attacks case. He is sentenced to death.2011 - In January, Indian Home Secretary GK Pillai says India will share information with Pakistan regarding the 2001 Samjhauta Express bombing. The two countries' foreign secretaries meet in Thimpu, Nepal, in February, and agree to resume peace talks "on all issues".2012 - In November, India execute Pakistani national Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the lone survivor of a fighter squad that killed 166 people in a rampage through the financial capital Mumbai in 2008, hanging him just days before the fourth anniversary of the attack.2013 - In January, India and Pakistan trade accusations of violating the cease-fire in Kashmir, with Islamabad accusing Indian troops of a cross-border raid that killed a soldier and India charging that Pakistani shelling destroyed a home on its side.2013 - In September, the prime ministers of India and Pakistan meet in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Both the leaders agree to end tension between armies of both sides in the disputed Kashmir.2014 - On February 12, India and Pakistan agree to release trucks detained in their respective territories, ending a three week impasse triggered by seizure of a truck inIndia-administered Kashmir coming from across the de facto Line of Control for allegedly carrying brown sugar.2014 - On May 1, Pakistan's Army chief General Raheel Sharif calls Kashmir the "jugular vein" of Pakistan, and that the dispute should be resolved in accordance with the wishes and aspirations of Kashmiris and in line with UNSC resolutions for lasting peace in the region.2014 - On May 25, Pakistan releases 151 Indian fishermen from its jails in a goodwill gesture ahead of swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as prime minister.2014 - On May 27, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds talks with Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in New Delhi. Both sides express willingness to begin new era of bilateral relations.Hence, these are the pacts, treaties and compromises that both the nation had made till now to prevent wars.