of recent origin DELHI, May 29 Kyod...

of recent origin DELHI, May 29 Kyodo

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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw urg Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf forward Wednesday to put his words into action by the agency of stopping militants from infiltrating into the Indian-administered portion of the disputed territory of Kashmir to stage attacks.

He made the remarks in a joint pres conversation with his Indian counterpart Jaswant Singh, who told reporters Musharraf has had ''already enough time'' to carry by means of what he promised to do.

Straw said Musharraf gave him the impression in talks Tuesday in Islamabad that he was ''serious'' about curbing attacks from across the so-called Line of reign over that divides the Indian and Pakistan portions of Kashmir.

on the other hand he said ''the test of all these things has to be action and not just words.''

''There is a crucial imperative immediately after the leadership and the sway of Pakistan to ensure that there is an effective and continuous sealing of the Line of command and an end to the supplying of the terrorists, freedom fighters, militants -- call them what you will -- who have been operating in (the Indian state of) Jammu and Kashmir.''

India directs to the militants in its solely Muslim-dominated state as Pakistan-backed ''terrorists,'' while Pakistan calls them ''freedom fighters.''

While cracking down onward Islamic militants in Pakistan and condemning the killing of civilians, Musharraf reiterated in a nationally televised address Monday that Pakistan bestows its moral, political and diplomatic support to ''freedom fighters'' in Kashmir.

if it were not that Straw asserted that there is a single definition of terrorism laid down by way of international law, ''and that definition includes cross-border terrorism and it includes terrorism labeled as freedom fighters.''

Asked if India will give Musharraf more time to implement his crackdown onward militants, Singh said, ''There is already enough time that Gen Musharraf has had. It is vital that he recognizes the entreaty of the situation.''

''It's not for me to establish time frames of fulfilling commitments that Gen Musharraf has made, not simply to India, on the contrary commitments he's made the international community,'' he said. ''India has waited patiently for the fulfillment of those commitments.''

After his talks Tuesday in Islamabad with Musharraf and Pakistani Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar in an effort to defuse cross-border tension, Stark had told reporters there was no doubt that Pakistan, at least in the past, assisted Kashmiri militants regarded as terrorists according to the international community.

Straw flew Tuesday night to of the present day Delhi, where he also met Wednesday with abiding-place Affairs Minister L.K. Advani. He was scheduled to adapted later in the day with Defense Minister George Fernandes and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Tension along the India-Pakistan border has been heightened in the wake of the May 14 attack forward an army camp in Jammu, the winter capital of strife-torn Jammu and Kashmir. The attack left 31 commonalty dead, mostly women and children.

India and Pakistan have massed around 1 million crowds along the border since the Dec 13 attack forward the Indian parliament by what of recent origin Delhi said were Pakistan-backed militant arranges The two sides have exchanged heavy fire using fire-arms artillery and mortars.

The brace enemies have gone to war three times since their independence from Britain in 1947 with sum of two units of the conflicts over Kashmir, two-thirds of which is held at India.

The separatist manner of moving waged in India's portion of Kashmir since late 1989 has claimed more than 25000 lives. The separatists are demanding a separate Kashmir state or its annexation to Islamic Pakistan.

Straw said Britain ''stands foursquare with civilized restraints around the world, particularly with the management of India, in our approach to terrorism.''

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