Islamabad: Pakistan on April 19 rejected criticism from the United States that it
has not done enough to control incursions into Jammu and Kashmir.
Islamabad has taken all possible preventive measures and no infiltration is taking
place, a Foreign Office spokesman said.
Aziz Ahmed Khan noted that Pakistan had repeatedly offered to allow the deployment
of neutral observers to verify no incursions were taking place across the line of
control.
Pakistan had also repeatedly called for dialogue with India on the problem, he
said.
"No positive response to these offers which has been going on have been received
from India. These allegations are baseless," said Khan, who called on the
international community to press India to agree to dialogue with Pakistan on the
matter.
Khan was replying to comments by the US State Department's Director of Policy
Planning Richard Haass, who told an Indian TV channel on April 18 that Washington
had been urging Pakistan to halt incursions by Islamic guerrillas into
Kashmir.
"I'll be honest, we have not succeeded, and we are at times, shall we say,
disappointed and frustrated with that reality," Haass said.