ISLAMABAD, July 4 Kyodo Pakistan ...

ISLAMABAD, July 4 Kyodo

Pakistan has dismissed allegations by way of India that it encourages infiltration across the Line of bridle (LOC) dividing the disputed Kashmir region.

A Foreign Ministry spokesman said Wednesday that of the present day Delhi has ''lost all credibility'' at making ''so many contradictory statements forward the issue.''

''It appeared that the statement by dint of the Indian external affairs minister had been inspired at the desire to deflect the squeezing on India to rejoin positively to the international community's call for the de-escalation of tension and the resumption of dialogue with Pakistan,'' the ministry spokesman said in a statement.

Indian External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha earlier Wednesday accused Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf of ''reneging'' in succession his commitment to stop infiltration of terrorists across the LOC into Jammu and Kashmir, India's merely Muslim-majority state.

Since December, the pair nuclear rivals have deployed around a million soldiers along their borders and the LOC in Kashmir, athwart which they have fought brace of their three wars since independence from Britain in 1957 and came stop up to another in 1999.

India, which represss two-thirds of Kashmir, says Pakistan has combustible mattered militancy in Jammu and Kashmir for more than 12 years in a violent campaign that has left an 25,000 people dead.

Tensions that were already raised through the December suicide attack onward the Indian parliament were further heightened from the killing in May through Islamic separatists of more than 30 race mostly family members of army personnel including children, in Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir.

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