Washington: US is "still working" to reconcile old adversaries in South Asia and elsewhere, Secretary of State Colin Powell has said.

"We still work to reconcile old adversaries, our efforts in the Middle East, in Africa, in South Asia and elsewhere show," said Powell, speaking at the annual Kennan Institute dinner on Wednesday (Mar 24, 2004), said in a speech just released.

"I spent part of last week in India and Pakistan, working hard to see these two nations that 18 months ago, 20 months ago on the verge of war, war that might have been a nuclear war but the headline this time when I was there was, 'Pakistan Wins At Cricket' and they are talking to one another."

"They are exchanging trade ideas and they are exchanging delegations. And they have an agreement underway being executed now to begin conversations that will lead through the thicket of issues that they have to work on, to include Kashmir," Powell said.