New Delhi, March 24
The Ministry of External Affairs today kept quiet on Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s statement on Kashmir wherein he had said there could be no progress between India and Pakistan till “core issues” like Kashmir were resolved.
Asked for a reaction on Gen Musharraf’s yesterday’s statement, Foreign Office spokesperson said: “Our views on the issue are well-known.”
Asked to comment on remarks made by Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri in an interview that Pakistan was ready for demilitarisation in Siachen, spokesman Navtej Sarna said: “Siachen demilitarisation is concerned, Siachen is an issue in the Composite Dialogue. It is a matter under discussion between the Defence Secretaries of the two countries. I would refrain from any further comment.”
UNI Adds:
India dismissed as “nothing new” Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri’s statement that his country was ready to pull out troops from the Siachen glacier if New Delhi also did so.
“There is nothing new in the Pakistani proposal because of Islamabad’s refusal to authenticate the present positions in Kargil,’’ official sources said.
