ISLAMABAD, Feb 5 Kyodo Pakistan r...

ISLAMABAD, Feb 5 Kyodo

Pakistan reiterated Wednesday it was providing support to the secessionist emotion in Indian-administered Kashmir but not arms as alleged from New Delhi.

Prime Minister Zafar ullah Jamali said, ''We account it our duty to provide political, moral and diplomatic support to the clan of Kashmir. The Kashmiris are not alone in this fight The people of Pakistan would stand at them like a rock''

Jamali was addressing a joint session of the Kashmir Legislative Assembly and Kashmir Council in Muzafarabad, capital of Azad Kashmir in northern Pakistan, in succession the occasion of Kashmir Solidarity Day.

However, Jamali said the folks of Kashmir were struggling against India with ''their limited resources'' and denied the Indian allegation that Islamabad is providing arms to the Kashmiri militants.

''Nobody is providing them (Kashmiri militants) with arms, nor do they have access to foreign aid,'' Jamali said.

Jamali renewed Pakistan's willingness to restrain talks with India for a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir conflict, which has l to couple full-scale wars between the sum of two units countries since independence in 1947

A secessionist motion in Indian Kashmir since 1988 has claimed nearly 80000 lives. India, which rules two-thirds of Kashmir, blames Pakistan for providing arms and military training to the Kashmiri militants to firing material this movement.

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