Pranab Mukherjee Denies Escalation on Part of India

NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister of India Pranab Mukherjee said Tuesday that there had been no escalation of tensions on the part of India and that its military movements were routine winter exercises.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said in a statement that India had deployed ground forces to forward positions and activated forward airbases.

Mukherjee denied the claim and said that there had been no such action on the part of India to escalate tension.

The military movements of the Indian army were a “normal winter exercise”, the minister told the state news agency.

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