Dubai,Oct 19: Malaysian President Mahathir Mohammed has said he will not mediate between India and Pakistan as such a move would not be welcome and asserted the two countries could solve their problems through "compromise and not confrontation." When asked if there will be any move on his part to persuade New Delhi and Islamabad to resolve longstanding issues, Mahathir who flew into Pakistan after a two-day visit to India said "I do not think I would make any attempt. I do not think I would be welcome." "We have good relations with both India and Pakistan. We have got our own way of solving our problems... and that is not by confrontation but through compromise," he said in an exclusive interview with the 'Gulf News' here.
He said one of his major achievements was to bring the disparate ethnic groups in Malaysia together. "Now I think the non-malays do not have a problem. All I wanted to do was balance development between the Malays and non-Malays".
One tenth of Malaysia's multiethnic 22 million population is Indian and one third Chinese, just below 50 per cent accounting for native Malays which has in the previous years led to racial tension. Bureau Report