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No change in Kashmir policy: Musharraf

By B. Muralidhar Reddy

ISLAMABAD Nov. 28. The Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, has said that the new Government headed by Mir Zafrullah Khan Jamali would continue the Kashmir policy of Pakistan ``without any alteration.''

Gen. Musharraf spelt out the new Government's Kashmir policy when the President of the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Muhammad Anwar Khan, called on him on Wednesday evening at the military General Headquarters in Rawalpindi.

Though Gen. Musharraf's observations are ritualistic, they negate what he himself had promised with respect to transfer of power to a civilian set-up. Gen. Musharraf was on record on more than one occasion that the new government would have the freedom to formulate its foreign policy and had specifically referred to Kashmir, as an example.

``Kashmir is an international dispute that requires the immediate attention of the United Nations and other world powers,'' he told Lt. Gen. (retd.) Anwar Khan, while renewing his pledge to continue his ``unflinching support'' to the Kashmir cause.

Pakistan would press for the implementation of the U.N. resolutions, he said and urged the international community to exert pressure on India to start "meaningful'' talks. "Durable and just solution'' to the Kashmir problem was vital to peace and stability in South Asia. Pakistan would play its role in resolution of the problem and bring back ``normalcy'' to the region. Gen. Musharraf claimed that Kashmiris were struggling for their ``right to self-determination'' and the United Nations had accepted it. Pakistan would continue its ``political, moral and diplomatic'' support for Kashmiri people and their ``freedom struggle.''

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