Border accord likely
NZPA-AFP New Delhi India and Pakistan are expected to sign an agreement to defuse border tensions after a fifth consecutive day of talks, sources on both sides said yesterday. The talks were to have been held only on Saturday and Sunday, but they were extended in a bid to break the deadlock with an estimated 500,000 troops massed at the borders.
A sticking point was reportedly India's reluctance to limit plans to hold multi-corps manoeuvres on an unprecedented scale in Rajasthan, which borders Pakistan. _ India moved troops to border areas nearly two . wee £ s ,. ago after accusing Pakistan of not moving back its troops after winter exercises in the ac-
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