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Kashmir can’t be sidelined: Musharraf

London, June 19
Insisting that Kashmir cannot be “sidelined,” Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said the “prime dispute” had to be resolved before any other topics were discussed with India.

“Kashmir cannot be sidelined. It has to be the prime dispute to be resolved before any other topics can be discussed,” President Musharraf said in an interview published in The Times today.

Rejecting India’s accusations of continuing incursions by terrorists from Pakistan across the line of control, he said “Nothing is happening and there is not one terrorist camp in (Pakistan-occupied) Kashmir.

“But if they think I am going to stop even a bird flying across the LoC, I will not. I cannot guarantee nothing happens in Kashmir.” — PTI