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No Pak. leader can abandon Kashmir: Musharraf

New York Sept. 14. The Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, has said that he will be thrown out of power if he abandons the Kashmir issue.

``No leader, no government of Pakistan can leave or abandon the issue of Kashmir. Any effort to sideline this issue will not work because the people are involved in it,'' he said in an address to the Asia Society here on Friday.

Elaborating on the "pitfalls" for the Pakistani leaders who abandoned the Kashmir issue, Gen. Musharraf said ``it is not possible. Nobody can do it. He'll be eliminated. He'll be out of government. He'll be defeated. His government will be defeated.''

Stating that it was time India dropped its opposition to third-party mediation on Kashmir, he asked ``we have been trying for all these years through a bilateral approach to move forward on Kashmir, and where has it ended?'' The dispute was undermining peace in the region.

At another function held in his honour here, Gen. Musharraf referred to an article in an Indian magazine, which talked of how India could be proud of ``one achievement.''

And he said ``India should be ashamed of a thousand other things.''— PTI

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