`Withdrawal from our present positions is out of question, but we can re-adjust our positions due to climatic condition and due to enemy tactics,'' UJC chairman Syed Salahuddin Ahmed, told media persons in Islamabad on Sunday.

`Hundreds of Indian artillery and dozens of fighter planes are bombing Mujahideen positions and it would not be less than death sentence if our fighters vacate their positions in such situation,' Salahuddin said.`The mujahideen can think about withdrawal only if the international community explicitly assures us that it will settle the long-standing dispute according to the aspirations of Kashmiris,' he added.

Salahuddin condemned the stand held by the United States and other western countries on Kashmir as `unrealistic, inhumanand unjustified', and said they backed India, ignoring the killings of `70,000 people and the continued gangrape of the women by the Indians.'

He described mujahideen's `victories' in Kargil-Drass as a milestone in the history of 10-year of Kashmir armed struggle. `Operation in Kargil is a message for Indians that we can beat and dislocate them.'

He said mujahideen have cut off Indian troops' main supply route in Kargil-Drass areas, endangering the lives of four division of Indian troops in the Siachen glacier.

`It would be difficult for Indian troops in Siachen to survive if the mujahideen block their supply till September,'' he said. `Developments in Kargil have invited world attention that there could be a big war if the Kashmir dispute was not resolved,' Salahuddin claimed.

He, however, regretted that Washington and G-8 countries turned blind eyes and deaf ears to the long-sufferings of Kashmiris. Replying to a question about the Sharif-Clinton agreement, the UJC chairman said, `We respectPakistan leadership but totally reject the agreement between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and President Bill Clinton.'

He said the people in `India-held Kashmir' hold Pakistani leadership in high esteem but not at the cost of Jehad-e-Kashmir (holy war of Kashmir).On its part, the Pakistan cabinet said the Muslim groups have `responded positively' to the government's plea on Friday that they work to resolve the Kargil situation.

`The Cabinet noted that the Mujahideen had responded positively to the appeal of the Government of Pakistan to help resolve the current Kargil situation,' a statement said after Saturday's cabinet meeting.

Sharif will address parliament on Monday morning and will later appear on Pakistan Television in an address to the nation in which he will give details of his talks with President Clinton in Washington and will appeal to the Muslim militants to withdraw from the Drass-Kargil sector.

Analysts at the Karachi Stock Exchange say stocks will fall further on Monday in Karachi if thePrime Minister doesn't make firm commitments in his address to the nation to prevent a further escalation of the conflict in Kashmir.

The analysts say that the Pakistan rupee will also suffer if Sharif is not forthcoming in what progress has been made on the issue of withdrawal of militants from across the Line of Control in Kashmir.