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Pak. charge baseless, says India
By Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI, JAN. 21. India today rejected Pakistan's charge that wheat supplied by it to Afghanistan was infested with germs and diseases. The claim was ``baseless,'' because not a single consignment meant for Afghanistan was transported through Pakistan, a Foreign Office spokesperson said, implying that Islamabad had no opportunity of evaluating the quality of wheat.
Of the one million tonnes of wheat pledged by India to Afghanistan, one half had been delivered through routes avoiding Pakistan. ``We are pursuing various options for the remaining wheat,'' the spokesperson told newspersons. Maintaining that Pakistan's transit curbs on Indian wheat were superfluous because New Delhi had not asked Islamabad for any transit facility, the spokesperson said ``it is a matter between the World Food Programme and Pakistan.'' India had the necessary wheat stock to comply with its promise and they were free from germs and diseases.
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