No Chinese backing for Musharraf on Kashmir

BEIJING, JAN.19. Though the Pakistani military ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, returned home triumphantly with the Chinese support for his regime, he apparently failed to `convince' the Communist leadership to back Islamabad's hazardous stand on the Kashmir issue, observers here said.

``There is no doubt that the Chinese rolled out the red carpet for Gen Musharraf. However, on the sensitive question of Kashmir, they did not succumb to the hazardous stand of the Pakistani general,''one observer told PTI today, a day after the the army ruler won Beijing's support for his military regime.

China openly backed Pakistan's claim to all of Kashmir in the 1960s and 1970s but has appeared to avoid taking sides in recent years in tune with the easing of tensions with India.

- PTI

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