Pakistan High Commissioner clarifies

 

Pakistan’s High Commissioner to UK Wajid Shamsul Hasan has categorically denied an attribution to him in a report today in Financial Times by James Lamont that Pakistan has sent troops to its eastern border.

 

In the first place he did not give any interview to Mr James Lamont. He had a meeting with Ms Serena Tarling, Asia Editor of Financial Times in London. In his response to a question by her he had commented that it was the responsibility of the international community to prevail on India to provide Pakistan a comfort level by lessening tension, by stopping construction and increasing number of overly militarised check-posts and cantonments on Pakistan’s eastern border.

 

The High Commissioner had underscored that in order to carry on an effective counter-offensive against terrorists and to put more Pakistani troops in it, the US and Nato should ask India not to be assertive that was sapping Pakistan’s efforts to fight Pakistani Taliban. The High Commissioner did tell Serena that Islamabad had been unhappy by pressures on its eastern border created by the building up of new militarised check-posts and cantonments close to the sensitive frontier over the past year.

 

 

London

March 26, 2009

 

Last updated: 26 March 2010