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India, Pak should withdraw troops from LoC, says Aziz

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India, Pak should withdraw troops from LoC, says Aziz

Pakistan has suggested to India that both countries pull back troops from the LoC to demilitarise the region and hand it over to the police and other organisations.

These suggestions came from Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz during a TV interview on Tuesday. The atmosphere between the two neighbours was improving but progress on disputes resolution was not up to what it should have been. While the opening of five crossing points on the LoC, which was aimed at fostering contacts and interaction among the Kashmiris was a positive development, these were not functioning as effectively as they could have, Aziz said.

He referred to his as well as Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last year and said various ideas were being discussed through back channel diplomacy, which included proposals like self-governance and demilitarisation.

Pakistan has been reiterating self-governance and demilitarisation as its ideas to ease tensions along the LoC, especially in the aftermath of the October 8 earthquake but declined to elaborate and put forward them as proposals.

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