Islamabad, Aug 11: A day after Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee called for "cooperation" and not "confrontation" in resolving Indo-Pak issues, President Pervez Musharraf today advocated peaceful resolutions of all issues, including Kashmir, and said conflicts are "unthinkable" in this modern century. "Peace is in the interest of the entire region and especially for Pakistan and India. Pakistan is against conflict which is unthinkable in the conventional sense and would be disastrous for the two countries and the region," Musharraf told the inaugural session of a three-day international seminar on 'major powers and South Asia' organized by the Institute of Regional Studies here. He said Pakistan desires peace and will do its utmost to follow the track of negotiated settlement of all issues, including Kashmir, with India. Demanding modification in the Saarc charter to address regional disputes, including Kashmir problem, the Pakistan President said that bilateralism has become disfunctional. He was addressing the seminar at the same hotel where a peace conference of politicians and journalists from both the countries is taking place.
"I am extremely happy that Indian delegates are in Pakistan," he said referring to the peace conference which began yesterday with a message by Vajpayee saying "violence and bloodshed can't provide any solutions" to the problems.
Bureau Report