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DATE=6/6/99
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-250294
TITLE=PAKISTAN/INDIA/KASHMIR (L-ONLY)
BYLINE=AYAZ GUL
DATELINE=ISLAMABAD
CONTENT=
VOICED AT: 
INTRO:  PAKISTAN IS DENYING THAT THREE OF ITS SOLDIERS KILLED IN 
KASHMIR WERE FIGHTING ON THE INDIAN SIDE OF THE DISPUTED BORDER. 
BUT INDIA SAYS IT RECOVERED THE BODIES OF PAKISTANI SOLDIERS WELL
INSIDE THE INDIAN KASHMIR.  AYAZ GUL REPORTS FROM ISLAMABAD.
TEXT:  A PAKISTAN MILITARY SPOKESMAN -- BRIGADIER RASHID QURESHI 
-- DENIES (SUNDAY) THREE PAKISTANI SOLDIERS, WHOSE BODIES INDIA 
RETURNED, WERE KILLED INSIDE INDIAN TERRITORY OF THE DISPUTED 
REGION OF KASHMIR.  MR. QURESHI DESCRIBES THE ALLEGATIONS AS 
REGRETTABLE AND BASELESS.
                        // QURESHI ACT //
         THE INDIAN ARMY SEEMS ON ESCALATING THE PRESENT VOLATILE
         SITUATION BY LEVELING BASELESS AND FALSE ALLEGATIONS 
         THAT THESE PERSONNEL WERE MARTYRED (KILLED) SEVEN TO 
         EIGHT-KILOMETERS INSIDE INDIAN-HELD KASHMIR.
                          // END ACT //
THE MILITARY SPOKESMAN SAYS THE THREE PAKISTANI SOLDIERS HAD BEEN
KILLED IN AN AMBUSH BY INDIAN TROOPS ON THE LINE OF CONTROL 
DIVIDING KASHMIR BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN.
BUT INDIAN OFFICIALS SAY THE SOLDIERS WERE KILLED IN A MILITARY 
ACTION THAT TOOK PLACE WELL INSIDE INDIAN TERRITORY.  INDIA SAYS 
THIS PROVES DIRECT PAKISTANI INVOLVEMENT WITH GUERRILLA 
INFILTRATORS IT SAYS CROSSED THE BORDER FROM PAKISTAN.
SATURDAY, INDIA REJECTED A PAKISTANI PROPOSAL TO SEND FOREIGN 
MINISTER SARTAJ AZIZ TO NEW DELHI ON JUNE 7TH FOR TALKS TO DEFUSE
THE TENSION.
IN AN INTERVIEW WITH PAKISTAN'S OFFICIAL TELEVISION, FOREIGN 
MINISTER AZIZ REPEATED CALLS FOR TALKS WITH INDIA AND DESCRIBED 
THE DELAY IN TALKS AS DISAPPOINTING.
                         // AZIZ ACT //
         NATURALLY,  THE FACT THAT  THERE IS AT LEAST A DELAY -- 
         IF NOT A SET-BACK -- TO THE DIALOGUE PROCESS, WILL SEND 
         A WAVE OF DISAPPOINTMENT THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, AND I 
         HOPE THEY WILL  EXERCISE THEIR OWN PRESSURE TO PERSUADE 
         INDIA TO RESUME THE DIALOGUE PROCESS.
                          / /END ACT //
PAKISTAN AND INDIA HAVE ALREADY FOUGHT TWO WARS OVER KASHMIR.  
AND MR. AZIZ SAYS A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES IS NEEDED 
TO REDUCE THE RISK OF A THIRD CONFLICT.   (SIGNED)
NEB/AG/RAE
06-Jun-99 2:38 PM EDT (1838 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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