Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf on Saturday said that he was ready to discuss all pending issues with India but insisted that the focus of the talks should be Kashmir.
"Kashmir undoubtedly remains the main dispute adversely affecting Pak-India relationship, but we are and remain prepared to discuss each and any issue, but the focus should be on Kashmir," he said at a joint news conference with the visiting European Union delegation.
Musharraf said that during his talks with the EU leaders here he maintained that Pakistan was ready to discuss all outstanding issues with India.
He alleged that ever since the Agra summit, India gave an impression that Pakistan was not ready to discuss any other issue except Kashmir.
Meanwhile, Belgian prime minister and EU president Guy Verhosftadt urged both India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir issue bilaterally.
"The September 11 (attack on the US) has led to a new global environment which offers new chances and challenges. We need to push issues for peaceful resolution," he said, adding: "the time is ripe and the environment is there."
To a question on cross border terrorism, Musharraf said "all the three words in the claim are wrong, ab-initio."
"It is an indigenous freedom struggle in Kashmir, so no question of crossing over. Secondly, the status is that it is LoC and not a border as claimed. Thirdly, there is no terrorism in it as a popular striving and a struggle for freedom is going on. So all these three words are wrong. And no claim can substantiate anything beyond the facts on the ground," he said.

Musharraf said during his meeting with the EU delegation that he discussed the current situation in Afghanistan and its fallout on Pakistan.
"Both sides have let their full support to the current UN efforts to bring order to Afghanistan and usher in a broad-based multi-ethnic and representative government in consonance with the UN resolution," he said.
He said that Pakistan welcomed the UN initiative of calling the meeting of all Afghan factions in Germany to deliberate upon future dispensation.
"Formation of a broad-based government in accordance with the wishes of the Afghan people is very essential to maintain Afghanistan's unity, political independence and territorial integrity and to bring about durable peace in the region," he added. Bureau Report