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Pakistan says ready to repel any aggression
Sat Dec 27, 2008 5:59am EST
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan will not be the first to act in any face-off with India but is prepared to defend itself from aggression, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Saturday.
Relations between the nuclear-armed rivals have deteriorated sharply after India blamed Islamist militants based in Pakistan for the last month's attacks on Mumbai that killed 179 people.
In a sign of mounting tension, Pakistan has canceled army leave and shifted some troops from its western border with Afghanistan to the eastern border with India.
That is likely to cause alarm in the United States which does not want to see Pakistan distracted from the battle against al Qaeda and Taliban militants on the Afghan border.
The United States has urged both sides to refrain from further raising tension. China and Iran have also tried to calm things down.
Gilani said Pakistan did not want war but was ready for one.
"Our friends are trying their best to persuade India so as to avoid aggression ... to avoid any sort of misadventure," he told Muslim diplomats at a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
"But at the same time, our armed forces are highly professional. They are fully prepared but at the same time I assure you, once again, that we will not act. We will only react," Gilani said.
India, the United States and Britain have blamed the Mumbai attack on Pakistan-based Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, set up to fight Indian rule in the disputed Kashmir region.
Pakistan has condemned the attacks and has denied any state role, blaming "non-state actors." It has offered to cooperate with India but denies Indian claims that it has been handed firm evidence of links to militants in Pakistan.
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As Pakistan canceled army leave and moved some troops from the western border with Afghanistan to the eastern frontier with India, the foreign ministry in New Delhi warned Indian citizens it would be unsafe to travel to, or be in, Pakistan.
A bus service linking the Indian capital and the Pakistani city of Lahore was still running on Saturday despite the warning, local media said.
The South Asian neighbors both tested nuclear weapons in 1998. They have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947 and came to the brink of a fourth after gunmen attacked the Indian parliament in December 2001.
Although many analysts say war is very unlikely, international unease is growing. Continued...
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