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OTTAWA, Friday (AFP) Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf asked Canada to help persuade India to resume talks to try to solve the two nuclear-armed nations' dispute over Kashmir.

At a state dinner, hosted by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, Musharraf said: "We stand ready to revive dialogue with India (over Kashmir) through a sustained process of negotiations.

"Unfortunately, we are denied the very forum of dialogue."

Earlier, in an address to the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, Musharraf, who has fought in Kashmir, said "there must be no (new) war. We must settle our dispute peacefully."

He said the Kashmir dispute was largely uncovered in the West, evn though "we are fighting every day, killing people every day."

He called on India to immediately end its ban on the limited UN force in the area from moving beyond the so-called "line of control" which divides Kashmir.

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