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DATE=6/11/99
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-250515
TITLE=PAK / KASHMIR  (L) (CQ)
BYLINE=SCOTT ANGER
DATELINE=ISLAMABAD
CONTENT=
VOICED AT: 
INTRO:  PAKISTAN AND INDIA ARE TRADING ACCUSATIONS OVER THE 
TREATMENT OF SIX INDIAN SOLDIER WHOSE BODIES WERE RETURNED TO 
INDIA EARLIER THIS WEEK.  INDIA SAYS THE RETURNED BODIES ARE 
MUTILATED AND IS CONCERNED ITS SOLDIERS MIGHT HAVE BEEN TORTURED.
AS CORRESPONDENT SCOTT ANGER REPORTS, PAKISTAN HAS DENIED THE 
CHARGE.
TEXT:   ON THE EVE OF FOREIGN MINISTRY-LEVEL TALKS IN NEW DELHI 
BETWEEN PAKISTAN AND INDIA TO EASE TENSIONS OVER KASHMIR, INDIA 
HAS ALLEGED PAKISTAN MUTILATED THE BODIES OF ITS SOLDIERS KILLED 
IN THE TROUBLED REGION.
PAKISTAN'S MILITARY SPOKESMAN, RASHID QURESHI, CALLS INDIA'S 
ALLEGATIONS BASELESS AND UNBELIEVABLE.  HE SAYS INDIA IS WAGING A
CAMPAIGN OF NEGATIVE PROPAGANDA AGAINST PAKISTAN.
                       /// QURESHI ACT ///
         NO ARMY WOULD MUTILATE BODIES.  IT IS RIDICULOUS EVEN 
         THINKING THAT ANYONE WOULD MUTILATE BODIES AND THEN 
         RETURN THEM TO THE ENEMY.
                         /// END ACT ///
MR. QURESHI SAYS THE BODIES OF THE INDIAN SOLDIERS HAD BEEN LEFT 
BEHIND IN A REMOTE, HARD TO REACH AREA ALONG THE LINE OF CONTROL 
IN KASHMIR.
                       /// QURESHI ACT ///
         THESE BODIES ARE THE BODIES OF SOLDIERS WHO WERE PART OF
         AN INDIAN ATTACK ON ONE OF OUR POSITIONS ON THE LINE OF 
         CONTROL OVER THREE WEEKS AGO.
                         /// END ACT ///
PAKISTAN SAYS IT RETURNED THE SOLDIERS' REMAINS TO INDIA AS A 
GESTURE OF GOODWILL.  LAST WEEK, INDIA DID THE SAME WHEN IT 
RETURNED THE BODIES OF THREE PAKISTANI SOLDIERS KILLED NEAR 
KARGIL.
INDIA SAYS THE REPORTS OF THE MUTILATIONS ARE SO DISTURBING THAT 
SATURDAY'S TALKS IN NEW DELHI BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES COULD BE 
CALLED OFF.  
INDIA AND PAKISTAN ARE AT ODDS OVER THE DIRECTION THE TALKS WILL 
TAKE.  INDIA SAYS THE TALKS WILL CENTER ON THE WITHDRAWAL OF 
ARMED MUSLIM INSURGENTS FROM ITS SIDE OF THE BORDER -- WHILE 
PAKISTAN SAYS IT WANTS TO DISCUSS A WIDER SOLUTION TO THE KASHMIR
DISPUTE.  
MEANWHILE, PAKISTANI FOREIGN MINISTER SARTAJ AZIZ BRIEFED CHINESE
OFFICIALS ON PAKISTAN'S BORDER SITUATION WITH INDIA DURING AN 
UNSCHEDULED VISIT TO BEIJING FRIDAY, ONE DAY BEFORE TRAVELING TO 
THE INDIAN CAPITAL.   (SIGNED)
NEB/SA/KL
11-Jun-99 8:47 AM EDT (1247 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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