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Pakistan moves reserve corp to
Sutlej-Ravi corridor

The move, according to army sources, is part of a major troop re-deployment all along the Indo-Pak border.

Two to three mountain divisions have also been inducted along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

Army sources said that the bulk of the Pakistani troop concentration, including its armoured and mechanised formations, is still on the Jehlum-Chenab corridor facing India's Chamb and Shakargarh bulge sector and along Chenab-Ravi corridor facing Lahore-Gurdaspur sector.

A report from Jammu said Pakistan's army build-up has assumed a threatening posture with the induction of three divisions in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir facing Drass-Siachen axis, Kupwara-Uria axis and the Naushera-Poonch sector.

The report said the Pakistanis have massed the troops along the strategic Hajipir pass, one of most widely used infiltration routes in J&K.

Meanwhile, Pakistan's official news agency APP quoted Information Minister Nisar Memon as saying that President Pervez Musharraf has convened on Wednesday a joint meeting of his cabinet and the National Security Council, the country's top policy-making body, to discuss the situation.

Faced with demands of his resignation and installation of a caretaker government, Musharraf has also invited political leaders on May 22.

A meeting of the country's mainstream political parties held in Lahore on Sunday termed him an "isolated ruler" and demanded his resignation.

The meeting, attended by 30 political and religious parties and human rights groups, adopted a unanimous resolution stating, "The president must resign immediately as he had lost the moral grounds to rule after committing rigging in the referendum."

The resolution demanded a "full time chief of army staff who can devote his whole-hearted attention to the defence of Pakistan and to meeting the threat to national security and territorial integrity".

PTI

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