Pakistan Initiates to Withdraw Part of Forces Along LoCAs a follow-up of the policy of exercising maximum restraint along the Line of Actual Contact and Line of Control, Pakistan has unilaterally taken another bold initiative to withdraw part of its forces deployed along the Line of Control, said a press release by the Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR) on Wednesday.The move back has already commenced and the troops have started moving towards cantonments. However, necessary safeguards have been taken against any possible Indian misadventure across the Line of Control to ensure protection of the local population, said the press release. It said this action manifests Pakistan's earnest and genuine desire to de-escalate the situation in order to facilitate the process of meaningful dialogue on the issue. It is hoped that India would also reciprocate in a similar manner and de-induct part of its 700,000-strong force deployed in Indian Occupied Kashmir, it said. |
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