"The root cause of tensions between our two countries is the unresolved Jammu and Kashmir dispute," he wrote, responding to the offer last week for a meeting from Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee of India.
What are the root causes of tensions?
Incongruent beliefs about the causes and treatment of an illness, language difficulties, strong religious beliefs and ethno-cultural norms and values (e.g. gender values) are often described as root causes of tensions.
He would change the police force's racial composition, which he identified as "the root cause of the tension" between the predominantly white force and many New Yorkers, especially Latinos and blacks.
In his press briefing today, the Pakistani foreign minister, Abdul Sattar, said that General Musharraf "has emphasized again and again that both sides know what the root cause of the tension is and it is that question, namely the Kashmir question, that has to receive priority attention".
Everything I read stated that the root cause of the war was ethnic tension.
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has emphasized the necessity of dealing with the root causes of the tensions.
Unless the government addresses the root causes of ethnic tensions and ends its systemic human rights violations, the chances of more violence will remain high.
In order to succeed, they will have to address the root causes of the tensions between different communities as well as longstanding grievances, and that will be challenging.
They are "Band-Aid" approaches in that they do not address the underlying root cause of war: mounting political, religious and ethnic tensions in a society.
She added; "China's subsidisation and continued overcapacity is the root cause of the steel crises," The back-and-forth reflects rising tensions between the US and China, which President Trump has described as an "economic enemy".
