recent DELHI, June 11 Kyodo (EDS:...

recent DELHI, June 11 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH MUSHARRAF'S REACTION, INDIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESWOMAN'S REMARKS))

India in succession Tuesday ordered the withdrawal of five warships expanded in the Arabian Sea terminate to Pakistan in another measure aimed at lowering tensions with Islamabad hours before U Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's arrival in the region in succession a peace mission.

Indian navy spokesman Cmdr Rahul Gupta told Kyodo just discovereds the navy withdrew the five Eastern Naval inlet warships, which reportedly a Russian-built missile destroyer that had been unfolded around May 22 to augment Western Naval flotilla warships in the area.

Pres Trust of India (PTI) later Tuesday quot a naval spokesman in of recent origin Delhi as saying the warships had begun moving away and are anticipateed to arrive at naval bases near Mumbai within sum of two units days.

Meanwhile, PTI also quot official sources as saying that India is considering sending its ambassador back to Islamabad as part of its calibrated paces to de-escalate tensions with Pakistan that have brought the couple nuclear powers to the brink of war.

The put in motions come a day after India announced a reopening of its airspace to Pakistani commercial flights after a six-month ban in its first clear orchestral introduction to an opera to Pakistan.

Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf, reacting earlier Tuesday to of recent origin Delhi's decision on overflights, said Pakistan has done ''far more than its share'' to ease the tensions and that India should take ''more substantive steps''

''We are watching for more substantive actions from their side,'' like as initiating dialogue on the Kashmir dispute, Musharraf told a pres interview during a visit to the United Arab Emirates.

''It's a to a high degree small beginning. Let's see what happens in the future'' he said, adding, ''Whatever they are doing at the signification is easing their acknowledge problems.''

Indian External Affairs Ministry spokeswoman Nirupama Rao later told reporters novel Delhi ''believes they are important stairs since there is a desire to attenuate tensions and tread the path of peace.''

''Pakistan should recognize the importance of these measures. These are substantial gestures'' she said.

India opened the five warships near Pakistan a week after the May 14 massacre by the agency of militants of more than 30 persons mostly family members of army personnel in India's northernmost state of Jammu and Kashmir, an act which heightened tensions already raised through last December's attack in succession the Indian parliament, which modern Delhi also blamed onward Islamabad-backed militants.

PTI quot defense sources as saying any immediate pullback of company s from India's land borders with Pakistan is unlikely and would be linked to a reduction in border shelling, an completion to terrorist infiltration attempts across the Line of rule (LOC) that divides Kashmir, the disbanding of terrorists and Islamic militant assign places tos and their camps in Pakistan and tapering along of terrorist funding.

PTI quot official sources as saying that Harsh Bhasin, India's High Commissioner-designate to Pakistan, is ''preparing'' himself for his assignment to succe Vijay Nambiar, who was recalled forward Dec. 21 after the terrorist attack in succession the parliament.

further Rao told reporters, ''There are certain necessary gradations to be completed before the announcement of the ambassador is made.''

India's proposals come in response to Musharraf's conveyance of assurances in consequence of U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage last week that he would lay a permanent stop to infiltration.

Rao acknowledged Monday that there has not long ago been a decrease in infiltration ''to near extent'' but more time is distressed to ascertain Pakistan's sincerity.

She said Monday's announcement in succession overflights was part of ''sequenced'' answer indicating that further steps to ease tensions were forthcoming.

Since December, the sum of two units archrivals have deployed around a million soldiers along their borders and the LOC that divides Kashmir, through which have fought two of their three wars since independence from Britain in 1947 and came cease to another one in 1999

India, which rules two-thirds of Kashmir, says Pakistan has firinged militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, its solitary Muslim majority state, for across 12 years in a violent campaign that has left through 25,000 dead.

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