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Foreign Office Spokesperson Tasneem Aslam has denied media report that Pakistan had requested World Bank (WB) to extend deadline for the reply to questions asked by its technical experts regarding Baglihar dam.

Talking with PTV she said, "Pakistan has not requested the World Bank to extend deadline for the reply of queries."

Spokesperson said Pakistan had submitted answers of all the queries sent by the World Bank's neutral experts. She clarified that World Bank had extended one-month deadline on the request of India, which was also applicable to Pakistan. Earlier, WB had given deadline of December 31 to both India and Pakistan to answer queries asked by the neutral experts, she added.

Copyright Associated Press of Pakistan, 2005


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