Pak. must create atmosphere for talks: Farooq

SRINAGAR, JUNE 30. The Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, has asked Pakistan to create a conducive atmosphere for talks with New Delhi by ending border hostilities and stopping infiltration of militants.

``Pakistani people might be keen to normalise relations with India but their Government is not sincere in materialising this,'' he told a group of Women's Initiative for Peace in South Asia led by Ms. Nirmala Deshpande.

The Pakistani Government had ``two faces - that of a friend and a foe,'' he said. On the one hand, they talked of friendship in Lahore and, on the other, they engineered border incursions in Kargil.

Charging the Hurriyat Conference leaders with exploiting the masses for their vested interests, he said they were implementing Pakistan's agenda causing miseries to their own people.

On human rights, his Government would not tolerate any sort of excesses on innocent people.

- PTI

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