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Pak brigadier admits to troops' involvement

Pakistan today admitted that its troops are fighting Indian soldiers along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

Contradicting weeks of official denials, Brigadier Rashid Quereshi, in an interview with The Los Angeles Times, said his nation's soldiers have been playing a major role in the operations against Indian forces. Brig Quereshi said his troops were involved in heavy fighting with Indian soldiers in Kashmir. ''The Indians are fighting the Pakistanis who seized the commanding heights,' 'he said. ''If we see the Indians, we shoot them. If they see us, they shoot us.''

On Wednesday, Qureshi said Pakistani troops had established posts in a stretch of the LoC that neither side had ever occupied before. Qureshi said that no Pakistani troops had crossed the LoC and that Kashmiri guerrillas were operating inside India independently of the Pakistani forces.

"The decision was made to occupy posts on the Line of Control that did not exist before," the brigadier told the newspaper. "If we didn't occupy those posts, the Indians would have occupied them."

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