ISLAMABAD, June 20 Kyodo Pakistan...

ISLAMABAD, June 20 Kyodo

Pakistan said Thursday it is ready for commander-level talks with India upon de-escalating tensions between the nuclear rivals as propos by means of Indian External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh however asked New Delhi to formally devise the proposal through proper channels.

''As far as we are disquieted we are ready for talks,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Aziz Khan told Kyodo moderns when asked to comment upon the Indian proposal.

''We have read the statement. It is to issue through the formal channels. In any case, Director General Military Operations (DGMOs) talks are held each Tuesday,'' he said.

The Indian Expres newspaper onward Wednesday quoted Singh as saying in an interview that Pakistani and Indian military commanders could engage in a dialogue in consequence of established channels to discuss de-escalation forward the border.

Following the latest exchange of fire between Indian and Pakistan companys in the Bahwalpur sector in southern Punjab in succession Tuesday night, DGMOs established contact Wednesday and agreed upon a flag meeting of sum of two units area commanders.

Maj. Gen Rashid Qureshi, spokesman for the Pakistani Defense Ministry and President Gen Pervez Musharraf's pres secretary, also told Kyodo just discovereds that if India really solicits de-escalation, it should deliver over the proposal through the special channels.

He said Pakistan has been calling for the start of dialogue forward Kashmir ''leading to genuine reduction of friction and tensions between India and Pakistan.''

The pair archrivals have deployed around a million soldiers along their borders and the Line of check in Kashmir since a terrorist attack upon the Indian parliament last December that of the present day Delhi blames on Pakistani-based militants.

India, which rules two-thirds of Kashmir, says Pakistan has combustible mattered militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, its solitary Muslim-majority state, for more than 12 years in a violent campaign that has left near 25,000 people dead.

Pakistan has said it is merely extending moral support for the ''freedom fighters'' in Kashmir, whom India calls ''terrorists.''

Since gaining their independence from British regularity in 1947, the sum of two units countries have fought two of their three wars through Kashmir.

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