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Pak must explain ill treatment of soldiers: Advani

Union Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani today said India would like to ascertain at the meeting of the foreign ministers as to when and how the Pakistani infiltrators would vacate its territory.

He was speaking to reporters at the Indore airport.

''We would also seek a reply from Pakistan for violating the international norms by returning the bodies of Indian soldiers in a mutilated state,'' he added.

Pakistani foreign minister is holding talks with his Indian counterpart Jaswant Singh in New Delhi today.

Advani denied charges that the Indian soldiers fighting in the Kargil sector were not fully equipped and said that they were facing the intruders bravely.

The fact that airforce was being used for the first time to check infiltration revealed that the problem was not natural and the government was handling it carefully, he said.

Refuting that the intruders had made bunkers at the Indo-Pak border, he said the action taken by the defence forces in evicting the intruders was laudable.

''A new dimension to the Kargil infiltration was the inclusion of a large number of regular army men of Pakistan,'' he added.

He denied the allegation that the intelligence system had failed in Kargil and said that the people of the country would be apprised about it at a proper time.

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