The armed forces are ready to implement whatever the government decided on Islamabad's offer of free movement across the Line of Control, Army Chief J J Singh said on Friday.
"Army has given its views to the government on the Pakistani offer and we are ready to implement what the government decides," he told newsmen in New Delhi when asked whether an unregulated movement across the LoC could lead to terrorists walking across the borders.
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On whether India and Pakistan were close to settlement on the Siachen Glacier issue, the Army chief said New Delhi had conveyed to Islamabad that some form of acceptance and verification of the existing ground position was essential, before any withdrawal could take place.
"We have to have some kind of documented proof of the positions the two sides held as a prelude to any solution", Singh said while briefing about the just concluded top army commanders conference in New Delhi.
'No Pak proposal on opening LoC'
Indicating that the focus of the deliberations had been on taking stock of the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and North-East and modernisation drive, Singh said his force proposed to spend Rs 1,900 crore on the armament-acquisition programme this year with the arms proposed to be procured, including new artillery and air defence guns, more surveillance equipment and upgradation of the army aviation wing.
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