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India, Pak decide to ease tensions

The four-day bi-annual meeting between the Border Security Force and the Pakistan Rangers which ended in Lahore yesterday resolved to ease tensions along the Indo-Pakistan border.

It has also decided to check incidents of unprovoked firing in the Jammu sector which had registered an increase in the aftermath of the Kargil conflict.

This was disclosed to newspersons by BSF Inspector General (Punjab frontier) Avtar Singh Aulakh, the leader of the 11-member Indian delegation which returned from Lahore this evening.

The IG's of the Jammu, Rajasthan and Gujarat frontiers, officers from the BSF headquarters at New Delhi, engineers from the central public works department and the Survey of India and an officer of the Narcotics Control Bureau were also part of the delegation.

This was the first official Indian delegation of any kind to have visited Pakistan after the Kargil conflict and the coup in Pakistan.

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