Tuesday, July 12 2005 09:54 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Islamabad: Pakistan yesterday (July 11, 2005) rejected India's assertion that terrorist camps were still operating in its territory, terming it as "politically motivated", and said this would not be helpful in the efforts by the two countries to resolve outstanding issues including Kashmir.

Such allegations are a legacy of the past when the relations between the two countries were extremely tense, Foreign Office spokesman Jalil Abbas Jilani said reacting to External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh's remarks to BBC that terror camps were still operating in Pakistan and that India has photographic evidence.

Jilani told state-run PTV that such "allegations were politically motivated and not helpful when the two countries were involved in the dialogue process to resolve outstanding issues like Kashmir."

He however made no reference to a report yesterday in Pakistan's Herald magazine detailing the reopening of a training camp at Mansehra in North West Frontier Province.

Citing an example of the camps being reopened, the Magazine said in its cover story that one of the country's oldest militant training camps at Mansehra is bustling with activity after a year-long closure, as old and new militants converged on it to resume their training.