Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accused Pakistan on Tuesday of violating bilateral travel agreement on the newly launched trans-Kashmir bus service. Manmohan said Pakistan breached the pact earlier this month by allowing occupied Kashmiri leaders to travel beyond Azad Kashmir to Islamabad where they held talks with President Pervez Musharraf.
People, who travel on the bus service, only visit the divided zones of Kashmir under the agreement.
Pakistan's decision to "invite them to visit Islamabad and other cities in Pakistan violated an understanding on the procedures reached between the two countries for running the bus service," Singh said.
He made the comments in a letter to former premier Atal Behari Vajpayee, who criticised the government's policy on the visit.
"It would not be, therefore, correct to state that the authorities on our side (had) mishandled the visit of the Hurriyat," Manmohan said.
Manmohan also rejected a proposal by Musharraf that the international community be made a "guarantor" of a resolution of the dispute over Kashmir.
"We have ruled out any role for a third party - either through intervention or as guarantor or as mediators - in any form," he said.
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