English/Nat Pakistan's Prime Minister - Benazir Bhutto - has accused the Indian government of being behind the kidnapping of five Western hostages in Kashmir - one of whom was beheaded. In an interview - banned from Indian Television - Bhutto also claims the Indian government is using the hostage crisis as a means of further undermining the Kashmiri uprising. Four western hostages still remain captives in the mountains of Kashmir. In this interview - banned from Indian television - Pakistan's Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto explains why she thinks the little-known Al-Faran group committed their kidnapping. SOUNDBITE: (English) I put it to you. Who are these Al-Faran? Who are these Al-Faran? And this kidnapping of the British hostages - has it helped the Kashmiris? Or has it really helped the Indian government in the propaganda against the Kashmiri uprising? People in Pakistan believe that this Al-Faran group is a creation of the Indian intelligence and that this atrocious act of kidnapping British hostages was masterminded by them to discredit the Kashmiri movement and the Al-Faran group - somebody had obviously given them - and we think it was an Indian intelligence - certain numbers. SUPER CAPTION: Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan Bhutto also said she thought it very unlikely that militants in the midst of the Kashmiri valley - an extremely remote region - would be able to have direct telephone numbers to various embassies and official offices of the Indian government they have contacted so far. SOUNDBITE: (English) "...that this non-known Al-Faran group suddenly emerges, kidnaps British hostages which discredits the Kashmiri movement, plays into the hands of the government and in the meanwhile he has the telephone numbers very conveniently of the British embassy in Islamabad....." SUPERCAPTION: Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan In the interview Bhutto also denies that Pakistan, which supports Kashmiri militant groups fighting for independence from India, was involved with the Al-Faran group. The remaining hostages - seen here in the most recent photo taken by their captors (August 18) - include an American, two Britons and a German. A fifth hostage, a Norwegian, was killed nearly two weeks ago. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/87df57e1ab0a1cf8936aeb047c9bde11 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

• published: 21 Jul 2015
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