General made PM offer on Siachen, says Pak daily

Pakistan has assured India that Pakistani forces will not seize Siachen glacier if Indian troops were to withdraw from it, a Pakistani newsp...

Pakistan has assured India that Pakistani forces will not seize Siachen glacier if Indian troops were to withdraw from it, a Pakistani newspaper said on Sunday.

The assurance was given by President Pervez Musharraf in his first face-to-face meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New York last Friday, The News said, quoting unidentified sources.

Singh had ‘‘positively responded’’ to the offer and modalities would be worked out later, the newspaper said.

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Pakistani Foreign ministry officials in Islamabad said they could not confirm the report.

The two countries have discussed Siachen many times but India has been reluctant to vacate the peaks, fearing that Pakistani troops positioned at lower ground would move up and occupy the glacier.

The News also said the two leaders had agreed to restore a hotline set up between the Pakistani President and Indian Prime minister eleven years ago but never really functional. The only regularly used hotline is between senior military officials of the two countries.

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