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Musharaff offers new formula
to resolve Kashmir tangle
What is India News Service, Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 2000 hrs IST
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf suggested that India and Pakistan consider the option of identifying some \93regions\94 of Kashmir on both sides of Line of Control, demilitarise them and grant them the status of independence or joint control or under UN mandate.
\93I will leave a food for thought for you. Take Kashmir in its entirety. It has seven regions. Two of the regions are in Pakistan and five are in India. In my view, identify a region, whether it is the whole, or seven, or part, I do not know. Identify the region, demilitarise the region for ever and change its status,\94 Musharraf said at an Iftar dinner attended by diplomats, government officials and mediapersons here.
Elaborating further, he said the \93status can be independence, condominium where there can be a joint control or there can be UN mandate\94 which has to be defined by \93legal people\94. State-run PTV quoted Musharraf as saying that a solution to the lingering Kashmir problem cannot be found either by insisting on plebiscite or making the LOC into a permanent border.
Musharraf said since both India and Pakistan agreed to consider options to resolve Kashmir after his meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New York in September he wanted to suggest a solution as a \93food for thought\94.
Spotlight
India's response to
Musharaff formula
The new Musharraf formula suggested identifying some regions of Kashmir on both sides of
LoC, demilitarising them and changing their status.
Delhi finds Gen's food-for-thought badly served: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's "food for thought" proved unpalatable for India for the manner in which it was served. Gen Musharraf on Monday talked of initiating a three-pronged discourse to identify regions at stake on both sides of the Line of Control
(LoC), demilitarise them and then grant them independent status, or a condominium which could include joint control, or put them under UN mandate.
Some warmth, a lot of bitterness: General Musharraf's uttering on the solution of the Kashmir problem has evoked mixed response in the Valley. While the common people see it as a window of opportunity for the resolution of the main issue, the separatist circles have cautiously welcomed it. Most of the militant organisations are tight-lipped but radical Islamist organisations like Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen and Dukhtaran-e-Millat have described it as "stage-setting" for a sell-out on Kashmir.
'Negotiation through media of no use': India told Pakistan on Tuesday it was ready to discuss President Gen Pervez Musharraf's latest proposals on Kashmir as part of their ongoing composite dialogue but it also said no good would come of conducting the talks through the media.
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India
test-fires missile:
India today test fired indigenously developed medium range missile 'Prithvi-III' from the Chandipur test range. The missile tested was naval version of
Prithvi.
Ram Temple construction inevitable says Advani:
New BJP president LK Advani, the architect of party's rise through the Ayodhya temple movement, on Wednesday acknowledged that the "environment " that made it potent has changed and the "Hindu anger" has given way to a patient wait for the temple "whose construction is inevitable".
States
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Maya fumes at Congress again: Calling the Congress enemy number one, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Chief Mayawati has asked the Centre to immediately impose President's Rule in Uttar Pradesh. Otherwise, the BSP leader said, the people of the state will never forgive the Congress.
SC rejects
Karnataka plea on Cauvery: The petitioner had challenged the orders of the tribunal on the proposed visit to Cauvery basin states on which difference of opinion existed among the members.
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50 lives
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Best Bakery
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Neighbours
Pakistan tighterns honour killing law: The National Assembly adopted on Tuesday a bill enhancing punishment for 'honour crimes', including 'karo kari', as the combined opposition continued its noisy protests and boycotted the proceedings. The assembly was later prorogued.
'Military wants peace with New
Delhi': The Secretary-General of the ruling PML, Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed, who is also a member of the special committee of National Assembly of Pakistan on Kashmir told a gathering of mostly Pakistanis and Kashmiris here on Tuesday that both the military and the MMA
want peace with India.
View from abroad
BBC plans to entertain Asia:
BBC will launch its entertainment channel in Asia in December, the broadcaster announced today. BBC will air sitcoms such as The Office and detective series Miss
Marple.
Overall:
Musharaff proposed new way out of tangle: The
Pakistan president wants India and his country to demilitarise the Kashmir zone.
CBI progressed in Taj Corridor probe: The investigation agency found huge donations made to the accused. Former CM Mayawati is also allegedly involved in the scam.
BBC announced Asia
entertainment channel: It will air sitcoms such as 'The Office'.
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