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Siachen: Pakistan ready
to pull out its troops 

What is India News Service, Thursday, 24 March 2005, 1400 hrs IST

Pakistan is ready to pull out troops from the Siachen glacier as per an agreement between New Delhi and Islamabad, Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mohammad Kasuri has said.

"We are prepared to do it tomorrow. There was already an agreement between the governments of India and Pakistan," he said in an interview to NDTV.

He denied that there was any resistance from Islamabad on troop withdrawal from Siachen, the world's highest battlefield.

Ruling out an arms race with India, Kasuri said Pakistan always aimed at a certain level of deterrence and "we have succeeded in it".

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