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:nono3:No infiltration, Pakistan tells US :nono3:
ISLAMABAD: There is no infiltration from the Line of Control, Pakistan told the United States on Friday. Islamabad also assured the world that it stood by its commitment to the international community.
Nancy Powell was summoned on Friday to the Foreign Ministry, where Additional Foreign Secretary Aneesuddin Ahmed discussed her remarks and repeated Pakistan’s stand that no such infiltration occurs.
Powell had made the statement at the American Business Council meeting in Karachi on Thursday. "Pakistan must ensure its pledges are implemented to prevent infiltration across the Line of Control and end the use of Pakistan as a platform for terrorism,‘’ she had stated.
According to a statement issued by the Foreign Office, Pakistan’s position regarding LoC was reiterated that there was no infiltration from the LoC. “Pakistan has taken all measures not to allow any infiltration.”
Pakistan has repeatedly called for the deployment of the UN observers on both sides of the LoC to verify the situation, the statement added. Pakistan also assured the world that it stands by its commitment to the international community. “Pakistan also expected the international community will fulfil its commitment to the peaceful resolutions of the Kashmir dispute,” the statement added.
Some religious parties leaders demanded Friday that Pakistan expel the US ambassador for having called for an end to infiltration into held Kashmir. The government said it would not ask Ambassador Nancy Powell to leave.
The US embassy declined to comment. Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, questioned the wisdom of her remarks, but said she had a right to say ‘whatever she wants.’ "The Pakistan government will not ask the US ambassador to leave the country although she has made some wrong statements,‘’ he said in a telephone interview.
He said demands by religious leaders for her to depart were politically motivated to appease their largely anti-American followers. "American ambassador has no right to interfere in the internal affairs of Pakistan, and she must be asked by the Pakistan government to leave,‘’ :eek: said Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, secretary general of a pro-Taliban Islamic group, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam.
Haideri said Powell’s statement shows "America is not our friend.‘’ Jamaat-e-Islami spokesman Ameerul Azeem said Pakistan should lodge "a strong protest with America.‘’ A Kashmiri Mujahideen leader on Friday rejected the US ambassador call to Pakistan for Muslim fighters to be stopped from entering Indian-controlled Kashmir.
Leader of the Hezb-ul-Mujahideen Syed Salahuddin told Reuters Powell’s remarks were “partisan and unrealistic” and “freedom fighters” :k: would never give up what he called their right to cross into India and fight Indian forces.
“Nancy Powell should condemn Indian state terrorism against Kashmiris,” he said. “Kashmiris have never recognised the Line of Control, which is a line of blood dividing Kashmir into two parts,” he said.
In a press statement Prof. Khurshid Ahmad, Naib Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, said Nancy Powell has exceeded all frontiers of diplomatic licence by repeating almost exactly what the Indian leadership has been saying about so called cross-border incursions in Kashmir.
He said America should be conveyed the frustration of the Pakistani nation. Prof Khurshid Ahmad called the remarks of the information minister about the statement of the US ambassador weak, apologetic and ‘very much muted’.
Meanwhile, in a press statement the PML-N has deplored the remarks of the US ambassador. PML-N Deputy Parliamentary Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said such remarks and similar recent utterances of the US ambassador to India showed that the United States government had shut its eyes to the ground realities, and was blindly supporting India’s bid to deprive the people of Jammu and Kashmir of their right to self-determination that was endorsed by the United Nations 53 years ago.
“Describing the indigenous freedom struggle of the Kashmiris as terrorism was not only a travesty of truth, but also the position now taken up by the United States belied its claim of being a friend of Pakistan,” he observed.
