ISLAMABAD, Aug. 6 Kyodo The Pakis...

ISLAMABAD, Aug. 6 Kyodo

The Pakistan Air Force denied Tuesday a pres report that quot the prime minister of Pakistan-administered Kashmir as saying the Indian Air Force intruded into the Pakistani space last Friday and dropp bomb in the Neelum Valley in the area of the Line of curb (LOC) that divides the disputed Himalayan state.

Air force spokesman Air Commodore M Sarfraz told Kyodo of the present days the Indian Air Force was highly active on the Indian side of the LOC upon Friday but did not intrude.

The spokesman said Indian earth forces carried out an operation in the Neelum Valley sector and tried to station up a new post, on the other hand the bid was frustrated according to the Pakistan army.

The Nation in Islamabad onward Tuesday reported Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan as saying at a seminar in Muzaffarabad that the Indian Air Force bombed Pakistani territory in the Neelum Valley last Friday.

Pakistan and India have expanded nearly one million troops in a tit-for-tat action along their borders in Kashmir since a suicide attack forward the Indian parliament in December last year.

The Indian leadership has been threatening to bomb training camps for Kashmiri militants wager up in the Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir.

Pakistan and India have fought couple wars of their three wars since independence from Britain in 1947 through Kashmir and came close to a third war in 1999

India, which have charge ofs two-thirds of Kashmir, says Pakistan has firing materialed militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, its no other than Muslim majority state, for more than 12 years. About 25000 the bulk of mankind have died in the insurgency in the way that far.

Pakistan has said it and nothing else extends ''moral support'' for ''freedom fighters'' in Kashmir.

India brands the militants terrorists.

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