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India trying to create confusion: Pak.

By B. Muralidhar Reddy

ISLAMABAD Oct. 23. Pakistan today accused India of trying to create `confusion' about the SAARC Summit scheduled to be held here. The spokesman of the Pakistan Foreign Office, Aziz Ahmed Khan, asserted that Islamabad had already proposed to the SAARC Secretariat January 11-13 next as dates for the summit and duly conveyed it to all the member states. He was responding to reports in the India media regarding the dates of the meeting.

It is for the second time in less than a week that Islamabad has gone public about its proposal to hold the summit in the second week of January. Last week the Pakistan Foreign Office had claimed that a decision about holding it here in January was taken in August at the meeting of the SAARC Foreign Ministers.

The spokesman said that at this meeting in New York on September 14, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, Islamabad proposed January 11-13 as the dates for the summit. He had claimed that the Foreign Ministers agreed to get back to the SAARC Secretariat about their consent by September 23.

The statement issued by Mr. Khan today was in response to the supposed comments made by the External Affairs Minister, Yashwant Sinha, accusing Pakistan of `repeatedly postponing' SAARC meetings. Calling

Mr. Sinha's remarks ``misleading and unwarranted,'' he said in the statement that, ``obviously Indian officials were trying to create confusion in a matter, which was quite clear.''

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