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| Pakistan, India using secret channels over Kashmir issue | |
| 2005-02-20 | |
| LAHORE — Pakistan and India are using secret channels for the solution of the Kashmir dispute, Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri disclosed here yesterday. Addressing a news conference at the State Guest House, he said the presidents, the prime ministers and the foreign ministers of the two countries were also involved in the secret channels. According to him the credit for starting Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service from April 7 also went to the secret channels. He said while the launch of the bus service was a victory for both the countries, the credit for keeping the matter secret for about nine months went to the people involved in secret talks. The foreign minister, who is scheduled to proceed on a visit to Japan today, made it clear that Islamabad would never accept the Line of Control as border between the two countries. He said Islamabad and New Delhi had fought three wars on the Kashmir issue and thus it was not possible for Pakistan to agree to the LoC as international border.
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| Posted by:Steve White |