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Islamabad, Oct 23
President Pervez Musharraf has said his proposals of self governance and joint management to resolve the Kashmir issue were aimed at reconciling the Indian and Pakistan stands on the matter and make the Line of Control "irrelevant".
"He (Prime Minister Manmohan Singh) says borders should not be redrawn. We say that LoC cannot be accepted as a permanent border. We need to work out a via media for the two positions," he told Geo TV.
"My proposals dealt with via media, which means giving them self governance with joint management system on the top so that both could be on both sides of the LoC to make LoC irrelevant. This way neither the borders will be drawn nor the LoC will become permanent," he said.
Asked about the criticism of his initiatives by hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Geelani, he said "those are his views. This way we can keep fighting for another 100 years".
On the failed Agra summit in 2001, Musharraf said he continued to hold the view that "some one above" scuttled the draft joint statement agreed by him and Prime Minister A.B.Vajpayee, despite the denials by the Indian leader.
Vajpayee has rejected Musharraf's claim that some "power" was responsible for the collapse of the summit saying it failed because the general refused to describe the violence in Jammu and Kashmir as terrorism.
Asked whether the Indian establishment was so strong that it could prevent their Prime Minister from signing what has been agreed to he said, Musharraf stuck to his assertions in his book 'In the Line of Fire' that both he and Vajpayee have been "insulted" at Agra.
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