The Hindu : Indian pressure neutralised: Pak.

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Friday, Mar 29, 2002

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Indian pressure neutralised: Pak.

ISLAMABAD MARCH 28. Pakistan has claimed that it has neutralised the pressure India tried to build on Islamabad by deploying troops along the borders through diplomatic and defensive strategies and urged New Delhi to withdraw its troops.

``We have no aggressive designs and our troop deployment is purely in response to the Indian deployment, but we will defend every inch of our soil, in case we are attacked,'' the Defence spokesman, Rashid Qureshi, told a group of Pakistani journalists on Wednesday while touring the forward defence areas in the Chhor Sector bordering Rajasthan.

``Diplomatically, we have conveyed to them that a war is not feasible in this part of the world where one-fifth of the humanity lives,'' Maj. Gen. Qureshi was quoted by daily Dawn as saying. _ PTI

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