Washington, June 26: President Pervez Musharraf has said that Pakistan has done "all it can" to control cross border terrorism and rein in extremist organisations but could give no guarantee on ending infiltration across the LoC even as he ruled out the possibility of an Indo-Pak war in the foreseeable future.
"We have at the government level ensured that nothing ought to be happening on the Line of Control... I can`t answer how much infiltration is going on. I don`t know. For me there is no infiltration going on. Pakistan has done all that it can do," Musharraf, who is on an official visit to the US, said in an interview to a newspaper.
He, however said, he could give no guarantee on ensuring that no one crossing over into Kashmir from the Pakistani side. To ask me to give a guarantee that nothing is happening across the Line of Control, I will not do that. I cannot. It is not possible," he stated.
"...Pakistan cannot be held responsible to ensure, to guarantee that not a bird will fly across the LoC. It is not humanly possible," he said, adding that it was not possible to seal the border.
On the crackdown on militant outfits by his government, he said groups like the Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, "who were creating apprehension in the minds of India and the world", have been banned.
Even though he said relationship with India could "never said to be satisfactory," Musharraf said he did not expect any war between the two countries in the near or foreseeable future.
"I don`t foresee war at all," he said pointing out the countries had already gone to battle three times in the past and were aware of the hazards of war.
"I think no leader in his right mind will go to war," Musharraf said, describing the border tensions between the two neighbours as "strategy of coercion" being applied on Pakistan.
Bureau Report
