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"Pakistan wants India to concede more areas beyond LoC"

"Pakistan wants India to concede more areas beyond LoC"

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Publication: www.indya.com
Date: February 28, 2001

Pakistan is of the view that a solution to the Kashmir  issue lay in India ''conceding'' more territory beyond  the Line of Control (LoC) and not by converting the LoC  into an international border.

This opinion was conveyed by the ruling establishment in  Pakistan to a US Congressional delegation which visited  that country recently.

"We have to tell the people that there has been some gain  after a 50 year struggle," Pakistan's Interior Minister  Gen. Moinuddin Haider, justifying his country's stand,  said, Congressional sources told UNI Wednesday.

Congressmen David Bonior, Jim Mcdermott and Joseph Pitts  called on Pakistan's Chief Executive Gen. Musharraf last  week.

Their meeting lasted for more than an hour.

Gen. Musharraf told the visitors his country, a long-time  ally of the US, felt betrayed because of the Pressler  Amendment banning arms sale to Islamabad during the 1990s  and also because of the visit of President Bill Clinton  to the subcontinent when he spent five days in India but  only a few hours in Pakistan.

Gen. Musharraf also told the delegation that Pakistan did  not give training to militants nor did it have a hand in  cross-border terrorism in the Kashmir valley, the sources  said.

He also said it was difficult to enforce immigration  controls on the Pakistan-Afghan border where tribal  people with similarities live on both sides of the  border.

Asked by McDermott to explain what caused the Kargil  conflict, Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar told the  delegation at their 20-minute meeting that the intrusion  was his country's retaliation to Prime Minister Atal  Bihari Vajpayee's ''anti-Pakistan'' rhetoric after his  Lahore visit.

Sattar also expressed concern over the delay in the  issuance of passports to Hurriyat leaders by India.

The delegation visited refugee camps at Peshwar and  Muzzafarabad.
 


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