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Infiltration may continue, but no war: Musharraf
Thursday, June 26 2003 12:08 Hrs (IST)
Washington: President Pervez Musharraf has said that Pakistan has done "all it can" to control cross
border terrorism and rein in extremist organisations but could give no guarantee on ending infiltration
across the line of control (LoC) even as he ruled out the possibility of an Indo-Pak war in the
foreseeable future.
"We have at the government level ensured that nothing ought to be happening on the LoC. I can't
answer how much infiltration is going on. I don't know. For me there is no infiltration going on. Pakistan
has done all that it can do," Musharraf, who is on an official visit to the US,
said in an interview to 'The Washington Post'.
He, however said, he could give no guarantee on ensuring that no one crossing over into Kashmir from
the Pakistani side. To ask me to give a guarantee that nothing is happening across the LoC, I will not do
that. I cannot. It is not possible."
"Pakistan cannot be held responsible to ensure, to guarantee that not a bird will fly across the LoC. It is
not humanly possible," he said, adding sealing the border was "not possible".
On the crackdown on militant outfits by his government, he said groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba and
Jaish-e-Muhammad, "who were creating apprehension in the minds of India and the world", have been
banned.
"There are hundreds of offices out there including in Kashmir (PoK), have been sealed and closed.
Their accounts have been frozen. Nobody before this could have touched them," added Musharraf.
PTI
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