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Islamabad denies militant training camps in Pakistan

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Islamabad, July 16, IRNA - Islamabad said Friday that there are no 
militant training camps in Pakistan, rejecting claims by the US Deputy
Secretary of State Richard Armitage. 
"We do not agree with the statement of Mr. Armitage. No centre of 
any kind of training is present in Pakistan and there is also no need 
of any clarification", Foreign Office Spokesman Masood Khan said 
quoted by the state APP news agency. 
"We believe that statement of Mr. Armitage is not based on facts. 
The intelligence which he has used in this connection is defective and
therefore it is not credible." 
He said, during a meeting with Armitage, Pakistan`s Foreign 
Secretary Riaz Khokhar told him that there was no activity around the 
Line of Control and that there did not exist any camp of any kind in 
Pakistan. 
According to Khan, the US deputy secretary did not make any 
request to Pakistan for sending troops to Iraq. "The US government 
told Pakistan some time ago that when the UN mission was set up there,
a multinational army would be constituted, it did invite Pakistan to 
participate in it." 
Pakistan has not replied to this invitation so far, and there is 
no change in our stand in this connection, Masood said. 
He said the interim Iraqi government of Iyad Allawi is making 
contacts with several countries to send troops to Iraq but "I don`t 
think he has made any specific mention of Pakistan". 
The spokesman said that Ashraf Jhangir Qazi has been appointed 
the special representative of the UN Secretary General in his personal
capacity and because of his own ability. 
"He has not gone there as a representative of Pakistan," he said. 
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