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Don't trust Pakistan, avoid complacency: Abdullah cautions Centre

Despite the general perception that infiltration from Pakistan had started reducing, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Friday cautioned the Centre that this was only a ploy by Pakistan, which was facing severe 'pressure' from the international community to curb cross-border terrorism.

Infiltration is like a 'tap for Pakistan', Abdullah said.

"Sometimes, it opens the tap and sometimes it turns it off. Unfortunately, the international community is turning a blind eye to the fact that they have not cut off the supply (militant training camps) to this tap," he said.

The chief minister regretted that the international community was taking Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf at face value.

"Pakistan has made tall promises. But how many of them have been fulfilled?" he asked.

"Why should we trust Pakistan? Our complacent attitude led to the December 13 attack on Parliament and the brutal carnage of innocent civilians at (the army camp in) Kaluchak on May 14," Abdullah said in Delhi.

Denying that infiltration had stopped, Abdullah said, "Militants are still coming into the valley though the number of such incidents has come down because of the heavy deployment of troops."

"Whenever world pressure starts mounting on him (Musharraf), he makes a televised address to the nation in which he makes tall promises, but does nothing to fulfil them," Abdullah said.

"Reining in militants is not an issue but eradicating all support to militancy is what India seeks from Pakistan," he said.

Referring to the international community's role in the de-escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan, Abdullah regretted that 'the world is ignoring our repeated cries that the second phase of eradication of militancy has to begin in Pakistan'.

He regretted that the September 11 attacks had not helped the world community build a firm opinion against terrorism.

He brushed aside Pakistan's objection to the Bagliyar hydel project saying, "The people need electricity. We are already suffering because of the Indus water treaty and we cannot suffer any more."

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