Even as international pressure mounted on Islamabad to stop cross-border terrorism, a senior Pakistani official has said infiltration into India is conditional to New Delhi taking steps to resolve the Kashmir issue and ending the status quo.Posted by Dr. Frank at May 29, 2002 06:49 AM | TrackBackPakistan "government would control the militants only long enough for India to demonstrate whether it is willing to take any steps to resolve the Kashmir dispute," a Washington Post report from Pakistan today said quoting the official.
The official, which the Post said was familiar with high-level deliberations on this issue, said: "It was a difficult decision, but Pakistani military commanders decided to give India a chance to prove her commitment to the international community."
"India's desire to maintain the status quo in Kashmir would leave Pakistan with no option but to embrace, once again, the militant freedom struggle in Kashmir," he said.