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Publication: www.jang.com.pk
Date: December 16, 2003
URL: http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/dec2003-daily/16-12-2003/main/main15.htm
India will not stop building fences
along the ceasefire line in Kashmir despite Pakistan's objection that it
violates bilateral accords and UN resolutions, news reports said on Monday.
Indian soldiers began building fences
after Pakistan and India agreed last month to a ceasefire along the Line
of Control, between the Azad Kashmir and the Indian Held Kashmir. Indian
officials say the fences will help in blocking infiltration by militants
fighting for independence of the held Kashmir or its merger with Pakistan.
Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali
had recently asked India to stop building the fences, saying they violated
bilateral accords and UN resolutions on Kashmir. "We don't accept this
thesis. We will be sharing our views with them," television channels showed
Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha as saying.
Sinha's comments came after a meeting
of the cabinet committee on security, which reviewed the situation in Kashmir
and developments in Iraq. Indian officials said they wanted to finish the
fencing by mid-2004, while Pakistan views it as a move toward making the
ceasefire line into an official boundary and opposes it.
