ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: Inter-Services Public Relations Director-General Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi on Thursday expressed his surprise over the statement of United States ambassador to India, Robert Blackwill, and said that he is believing false and fabricated reports put up by the Indian government.

Talking to British Broadcasting Corporation television, Maj-Gen Qureshi said: “I am afraid that the (American) ambassador to India, we recognise his compulsions, has perhaps believed in false and fabricated reports that Indian government keeps putting up.”

“How does the American ambassador make a statement like this. What the ambassador has said is very surprising,” he said.

He said President Gen Pervez Musharraf had stated time and again that no militant activity was taking place from the Pakistani side of the Line of Control.

“No movement of any militants is in the knowledge of Pakistan. We have United Nations observers on Pakistan’s side who keep monitoring the LoC,” he said.

“We have completely deployed the UN observers along our side of LoC and there has never been a report that they have seen anyone crossing,” he said.

HE SAID: “The Indian government and army continue to blame Pakistan. Pakistan government has denied that any such thing is happening. The UN Observers Group has also said that nothing is happening across the LoC.”—APP