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Kashmiri militant group Harkat-Ul-Mujahideen has urged the US to ask India to withdraw troops from Jammu and Kashmir, instead of suggesting that the outfit respect the truce offer by New Delhi.
"If the US has any sympathy for Kashmiris, then it must ask India to pull out its troops" from Kashmir, HM Chief Moulana Farooq Kashmiri said in a statement.
"The people of Kashmir had ceased firing for over 40 years, but India never responded positively to their gesture. The US has always been safeguarding Indian interests," he alleged.
The remarks came in response to the recent appeal by US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher to Kashmiri militant outfits to respond positively to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's truce offer.
The Harkat chief alleged
that Vajpayee's offer was a mere announcement, claiming that on the ground
there was no let-up in Indian operations. (PTI)
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