London, June 19: Insisting that Kashmir cannot be "sidelined," Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said the "prime dispute" has to be resolved before any other topics can be discussed with India. "Kashmir cannot be sidelined. It has to be the prime dispute to be resolved before any other topics can be discussed," Musharraf said in an interview published in the a daily. 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 line of control, I will not. I cannot guarantee nothing happens in Kashmir."

Musharraf, who is on a four-day visit here, also said that the west must not allow India to develop a military superiority that would leave his country's nuclear arsenal as its only real deterrent.
A sharp rise in India's defence spending, coupled with restrictions on Pakistan buying military equipment abroad, threatened to create a "dangerous" imbalance in force levels between the two countries, the Pakistani general said.
In such circumstances Pakistan would have no choice but to rely on its nuclear weapons, he suggested. "The other element of deterrence is your capability of striking and causing such damage to an enemy that is unbearable to him...," he said. Bureau Report