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India proposes expansion of embassies to Pakistan NEW DELHI, Wednesday (Reuters) India said it had proposed to Pakistan that the two countries increase staff at their embassies to cope with a rising demand for visas. A foreign ministry official said the move aimed to further Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's renewed bid for peace between the neighbours, who came close to the brink of war last year over their decades-old dispute about Kashmir. The proposal came a day after Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, at a conference in New York, attacked India as a perpetrator of "state-terrorism" in Kashmir, where Muslim militants have been fighting Indian rule since 1989. The Indian foreign ministry said in a statement New Delhi had proposed that the two countries increase the staff of their embassies to 55 from 47 now. Pakistan's foreign ministry said it had "noted" the Indian proposal but wanted India to restore staff levels to full strength. "We have noted this," foreign ministry spokesman Masood Khan told Reuters. "However, it would have been much better if India had agreed to the restoration of the full strength, which is 110 on each side." |
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