Islamabad, July 08: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said restoring balance of conventional and non-conventional forces between India and Pakistan is the key to ensuring peaceful resolution of issues between the two countries. "In its ultimate context, peace in this South Asian region will be through resolution of all political disputes including the Jammu and Kashmir dispute," he said while speaking at a function at a college here. However, before such a peace is achieved through the resolution of political disputes, "We have to ensure that there is no-win situation for the two contenders-Pakistan and India", he said. For that there has to be a balance in conventional and UN-conventional means of power "and this balance must never be disturbed in the interest of the peace in the region," he said.
Pakistan, he claimed, was following the strategy of minimum defensive deterrence, adding, the country was not in the arms race but would maintain such a deterrence at all levels. Musharraf said that to achieve the ultimate peace the two countries would have to reach political resolution of all disputes. Bureau Report