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| Sunday, 14 December 2003 |
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Pakistan conveys serious concern to India over LoC fencing ISLAMABAD, Dec 13 (AFP) Pakistan Saturday informed New Delhi it was "seriously" concerned about India's fencing of the disputed border in divided Kashmir, officials said. "The serious concerns were conveyed in a demarche made to the Indian high commission today," foreign ministry spokesman Masood Khan said. Pakistan's move came after the Indian army said it was fencing a 460-kilometer (286-mile) stretch of the Line of Control (LoC) to prevent the infiltration of Islamic militants from across the Pakistani side of the border. The 760 kilometer (470 mile) LoC was drawn up in 1972 along ceasefire lines after the previous year's war between India and Pakistan. The LoC has been treated as a de-facto border between the Indian and Pakistani-controlled zones of the Himalayan border region, which both sides have claimed in full since partition in 1947. The demarche came a day after President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali told India not to change status of the LoC. "There cannot be any change in its state ... especially when talks for rapprochement are going on," Musharraf said at the commissioning of an Agosta 90-B submarine in the Pakistan navy at Karachi on Saturday. India and Pakistan have been observing a historic ceasefire along the LoC in Kashmir since November 26 after Islamabad proposed an end to the nearly daily shelling by the Indian and Pakistani armies in the area. |
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