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Ex-PoK president supports Sharief

A former president of the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Sardar Abdul Qayyum, today supported Pakistan's appeal to the Islamic Mujahideen to withdraw from Kargil.

Qayyum extended the support as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharief returned home from talks with US President Bill Clinton in Washington on defusing the Kargil crisis.

Qayyum advised the mujahideen, who have rejected the appeal for withdrawal emerging from the Sharief-Clinton talks, to ''keep the security of Pakistan uppermost'' in their calculations.

''There is no harm in sacrificing a small gain for a bigger cause,'' he told reporters in Islamabad.

Qayyum said there were forces in the world who wanted to involve Pakistan in a war with India and turn it into another Iraq.

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