NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 16: India said today Pakistan had not pulled out any troops deployed along the Line of Control (LoC) and described the remarks of a Pakistan army spokesman that withdrawal of additional troops from the LoC, including the Kargil sector, had been completed as `only an exercise in obfuscation' .Replying to a question on the media reports in this regard, an official spokesman said General Pervez Musharraf had on October 17 last announced a withdrawal of troops only from the international border between India and Pakistan and Pakistani officials had clarified later that there was to be no withdrawal of troops from the LoC.He said the present remarks of the spokesman of the Pakistan Army are only an exercise in obfuscation. ``In actual fact, we have not observed any withdrawal of any Pakistani troops deployed at the line of control.''Commenting on reports of proposed reduction in Pakistan's defence expenditure as part of an economic reforms package,the spokesman said that as a proportion of its GDP, Pakistan's defence spending was among the highest in the world.He added that international financial institutions had, over a period of time, made insistent demands for the reduction of Pakistan's defence expenditure and had sought greater transparency in Pakistan's budget-making exercise regarding defence expenditure.
