Reports on terror camps rejected

Published August 7, 2004

ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: Pakistan on Friday rejected US media reports that Al Qaeda training camps had been revived along its border with Afghanistan.

"There are no terrorist training camps in any part of Pakistan," foreign ministry spokesman Masood Khan told AFP.

"Pakistan is opposed to terrorism in all its forms and has taken all the necessary steps to eliminate this threat." US news channel CNN quoted sources as saying that overhead surveillance of the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan showed vehicles and people moving to known Al Qaeda training sites.

The spokesman dismissed the report saying that Pakistan would not allow use of its territory for subversive purpose. He said recent arrests of Al Qaeda operatives, including a Pakistani computer expert and a Tanzanian bombing suspect, vindicated Pakistan's resolve to root out the menace.

"Recent interdictions underline and substantiate Pakistan's resolve to move against terrorists from any part of the world who may be using Pakistan soil," the spokesman said. -AFP

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