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Pakistani troops have begun conducting exercises in their areas, against the backdrop of Indian military exercises, official sources said.
''Various formations of the Pakistan Army are conducting exercises in their training areas,'' the sources said, adding, ''The exercises are a part of training and it is an on-going process which gets accelerated in summer.''
Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar, however, said Wednesday he did not know whether Islamabad, following tradition, would hold military exercises in response to the ''on-going show of force'' by New Delhi in the desert state of Rajasthan.
He said he had no knowledge whether Pakistan would hold any military exercise.
Sattar said Pakistan would follow the agreement of 1991 which bounds India and Pakistan to give a notification in writing 60 days before the launching of corps-level military exercises within 75 km of the border.
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