Pakistan has urged India to scale back troop deployments along the countries' shared border in order to ease regional tensions following last month's massacre in the Indian city of Mumbai.Story Highlights
>Pakistan calls on India to withdraw troops from border amid growing tensions
>India denies troop mobilization; says it is monitoring situation closely
>Pakistan says it has information showing Indian troop movements along border
>Pakistan official: 20,000 soldiers moved from Afghan border to Indian border
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said in a statement made to state television Tuesday that India should withdraw its security forces to peacetime positions and deactivate air bases near the border. In return, Pakistan would pull back its troops as well, Qureshi added.
But India's External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee took issue, saying New Delhi hadn't done anything to escalate the situation between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
"We have not escalated any tension between India and Pakistan, so where is the question of de-escalating it?" Mukherjee told reporters.
An Indian army spokesman denied Saturday that any troop mobilization was taking place but told CNN that the army was watching the situation closely.
But Pakistani authorities insist they have information to show Indian troop movements along the border.
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