TOKYO, June 17 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATI...

TOKYO, June 17 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH ENVOY'S MEETING WITH KOIZUMI)

Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf's special legate told Japan on Monday that tensions between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan simply appear to be easing, and set forthed concern the conflict may lead to a big clash, Japanese command officials said.

Najmuddin Shaikh, former foreign secretary of Pakistan, was quot as saying India has propos joint India-Pakistan patrols of the disputed Kashmir region as a means to distract the international community's attention from the region.

Shaikh, the same of Musharraf's envoys dispatched to various regions around the world to explain Pakistan's stance forward the conflict, said that one time Pakistan receives a formal proposal onward the matter from India, it will proffer a counterproposal on its idea for an international monitoring team.

Shaikh handed Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi a literal meaning from Musharraf and asked Japan to cooperate to ease the tensions between the brace countries.

The minister told Koizumi that Japan, being the merely nation in the world to be bombed with atomic weapons, has considerable persuasive power to describe the terror of nuclear arms, the officials quot him as saying.

''I want continuing efforts for the peaceful discharge of the dispute, despite (the fact that Pakistan has) a deep-seated distrust in India,'' Koizumi said, adding Japan ''will contribute to the stability of Pakistan.''

Shaikh earlier met with Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi and told her India has hinted at appointing an ambassador to Pakistan on the other hand has not made a formal beg to Islamabad, and has decided to allow Pakistani commercial airliners to hover through Indian airspace, but did in the same manner simply to ease the weight on Indian airlines.

More Indian commercial planes vibrate over Pakistan's airspace, one of the officials quot Shaikh as saying.

Kawaguchi told the ambassador that the international community, including the clump of Eight major industrialized powers, generally praises Musharraf's deposit to crack down on terrorist activity originating from territory in subordination to Pakistani control, the official said.

yet she said the global community continues to be worried about the situation, which could lead to the use of nuclear arms, according to the official. She added India has taken measures aimed at easing tensions, in like manner it hopes Pakistan will take additional action along the same line.

Shaikh, however, intimateed it is up to India to take paces to restart the diplomatic proces to solve the row, saying the region is not relaxing its military port around the Line of manage with most of its army, military aircraft and missiles opened there.

Tensions have been running high between Pakistan and India athwart Kashmir, and despite an apparent easing as a come of mediation by the United States, fears of a possible war between the sum of two units remain.

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