ISLAMABAD, April 19: Pakistan on Saturday rejected criticism from the United States that it has not done enough to control rebel incursions into India’s zone of disputed Kashmir.

Islamabad has taken all possible preventive measures and no infiltration is taking place, a foreign office spokesman said.

Aziz Ahmed Khan noted that Pakistan had repeatedly offered to allow the deployment of neutral observers to verify no incursions were taking place across the LoC. Pakistan had also repeatedly called for dialogue with India on the problem, he said.

“No positive response to these offers which has been going on have been received from India. These allegations are baseless,” said Mr Khan.

He was replying to comments by the US State Department’s director of policy planning Richard Haass, who told an Indian TV channel on Friday that US had been urging Pakistan to halt incursions into occupied Kashmir.—AFP