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India,
Pakistan had almost agreed on a Kashmir solution: Musharraf
Saturday, October 09, 2010 11:35:31 PM,
IANS
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London:
India and Pakistan had almost reached an agreement on Kashmir
issue, said Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf, and
tried to clarify his earlier remarks on training militants by
stressing many "motivated" outfits had existed before he came to
power.
"We were as close as drafting the final agreement," Musharraf
said, referring to a four-point formula floated by him in December
2006, which included phased demilitarisation of Jammu and Kashmir,
maximum self-governance, joint supervision by India and Pakistan
and softening of the Line of Control (LoC).
Speaking to NDTV in London, the former military ruler said the
draft of the resolution was also shared and discussed between both
sides "through back channel".
"We were drafting and in fact on the other two issues (Siachen and
Sir Creek) we could have signed any day," he said. "We carried out
the joint survey by the two navies of the Sir Creek area and we
know exactly the disputed area in the land and in the sea."
The former president, who came to power by overthrowing the
civilian government of the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif in a
bloodless coup in 1999, also sought to clarify his earlier
statement in which he had admitted that Pakistani army was
involved in training militants and sending them across the border.
Musharraf said due to prevalence of anti-India sentiment, people
"themselves" are "motivated" and "indoctrinated" to cross the
border "because there are gaps and it's a porous border".
"They don't need training. They themselves want to go. They want
to learn and want to go," he said, arguing terrorist outfits such
as Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT), Hizbul Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Mohammed
existed much before he came to power.
"Great public support, great public sympathy among the people of
Pakistan gave rise to all of them," he said, adding, "everyone
individual in Pakistan knew that people are volunteering to go and
they are going into Kashmir to fight the Indian Army."
In an interview to German magazine Der Spiegel earlier this week,
Musharraf had said that militant groups "were indeed formed" to
fight India in Kashmir. And "the government turned a blind eye
because they wanted India to discuss Kashmir".
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