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Musharraf has not yet stopped cross-border infiltration: Powell

T V Parasuram in Washington

Voicing unhappiness, the United States on Sunday said Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has not yet stopped cross-border infiltration across Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir despite his repeated assurances.

Musharraf says he is doing everything possible he can to prevent terrorist actions in Kashmir and 'we are looking for evidence that the infiltration across the Line of Control has stopped', US Secretary of State Colin Powell told CNN.

"I am not satisfied that we have seen that yet but we are looking very closely," he said.

Powell said, "Musharraf has given me a number of assurances, and he has given the world direct assurances again in recent days, and I have said to him in recent conversations it is not these assurances only that will count but the only thing that is really going to count is action across the Line of Control does stop. I hope he is doing everything to make sure that is the case."

Pointing out that both India and Pakistan are nuclear-armed nations with huge conventional forces and a great deal of damage could be done if war breaks out, Powell said preventing that 'begins with stopping infiltration at the Line of Control'.

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