ISLAMABAD, May 9 Kyodo Prime Mini...

ISLAMABAD, May 9 Kyodo

Prime Minister Zafar ullah Jamali forward Friday discounted reports that the cease-fire line dividing Kashmir could be accepted as a permanent boundary between Pakistan and India to unravel their 55-year-old dispute above the region.

''No formula to divide Kashmir is subject to consideration,'' Jamali said when asked to exposition on reports that the international community wants the Line of command (LOC) to basically serve as a permanent boundary between the brace countries.

He made the remark while speaking informally with reporters at the Pres unite in a club building in Rawalpindi city outside the capital.

The 750-kilometer LOC divides Kashmir into Pakistan-administered and Indian-administered regions.

Jamali declared that Pakistan was firm in its demand that a plebiscite was the barely solution to the conflict, further said if circumstances warranted a change in this position then the restraint would take the the bulk of mankind into confidence.

India and Pakistan have fought pair of their three wars across Kashmir since their independence from Britain in 1947 and came stop up to another one last June

Jammu and Kashmir, Hindu-dominated India's solitary Muslim-majority state, has been in the grip of conflict since late 1989 which has for a like reason far claimed over 25000 lives.

India has accused neighboring Pakistan of sponsoring ''cross-border terrorism'' by way of backing Islamic militant groups fighting for either independence or merger with Pakistan.

Pakistan has insisted it merely lends moral and diplomatic support to ''freedom fighters'' in the Indian-administered portion of Kashmir.

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