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Don't try pre-emptive strike, Pakistan to India

April 15, 2003 14:29 IST

Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has said that Pakistan would go to any extent if attacked by India under the doctrine of pre-emption. 

"Tension between India and Pakistan is quite dangerous because both are nuclear powers. Secondly, when it comes to the sustenance and the defence of the country, we would go to any extent," Jamali said in an interview aired on Pakistan TV on Monday night.

Referring to a question about External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha's remarks on pre-emptive strikes, he said, "I am not worried. Pakistan is fully capable of defending itself.

"We will not start a war. We do not want any escalation along the borders of India and Pakistan. We have always been saying that and always been offering to hold dialogue."

On the Kashmir issue, he said, "That has to be solved. It is the agenda item of the UN forum. I think the UN needs a wake-up call. They have to decide certain issues."

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