India envoy leaves embassy, Kashmiris protest, minister reacts

(10 Feb 2003) Islamabad 1. Entrance gates to India High Commission 2. Close up sign by gate 3. Van with diplomats reversing up driveway 4. Various of diplomats and luggage 5. Cutaway birds 6. Van with diplomats departing High Commission 7. Sudhir Vyas, acting Indian high commissioner in Islamabad, in white sedan, following van Rawalpindi 8. Demonstration by Kashmiris outside UN building against India AJKLF (Azar-Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front) 9. Close of protesters marching along road carrying banners and effigy 10. Wide exterior UN headquarters 11. Close up sign for headquarters 12. Close up protest sign: "we want free Kashmir" 13. Wide of protesters marching 14. Chanting protesters 15. Various of protesters and signs 16. Burning effigy 17. Cutaway chanting protester 18. Burning effigy on ground, protesters chanting Islamabad 19. Set up Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, Pakistan Information Minister 20. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, Pakistan Information Minister "We want good relations, this is our aim, this is our desire. But they only want to provoke us every time. They expelled our five people although we were also knowing what their diplomats were doing here. Find a good gesture. We never thought to do it this way as they did, but when we have no option then of course we did it." 21. Cutaway 22. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, Pakistan Information Minister "Today Vajpayee has again given a war statement, a hostile statement, and he wants to say we are supporting the terrorists, which we are not. But the Indian Kashmiri movement is a movement for independence and for freedom and we want that India should accept the decision of the United Nations resolution and we can live as friendly countries. Good countries, good neighbours." 23. Wide exterior Dawn newspaper company building 24. Close up sign 25. SOUNDBITE (English) Muhammad Ziauddin, chief editor, Dawn Daily News "Perhaps they (India) believe that now that the Americans are busy with the Iraq crisis and the Russians have not shown any positive response to the visit of President Musharraf they could utilise this period in putting Pakistan on the carpet and this is going to be, this is a dangerous game India is playing." 26. Cutaway Zaiuddin STORYLINE: Indian and Pakistani diplomats began their journeys home on Monday in the latest round of tit-for-tat expulsions that have further deteriorated relations between the nuclear-armed rivals. Sudhir Vyas, the acting Indian ambassador, and four other Indian embassy employees left Islamabad on an arduous 12-hour land journey after being ordered out of Pakistan last week. The Pakistani government accused them of "actions unbecoming their status", a term that usually refers to spying. Pakistan's acting ambassador, Jalil Abbas Jilani, and four embassy staff flew from New Delhi on Monday to the Indian Punjab city of Amritsar from where they would make the two-hour land journey to Pakistan. India ordered Jilani to leave the country, accusing him of funnelling money to separatists in the Indian part of Kashmir. Pakistan denied the charges. In Islamabad, Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Monday said the expulsions were an attempt by India to derail any prospects of improved relations. Expulsions are not uncommon between the two neighbours and these were the second round this year. The latest expulsions would appear to wreck hopes that the neighbours might soon begin talks to settle their protracted dispute over the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir. united Kashmir joins Pakistan or India. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...