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India: Pakistan remarks unhelpful for peace NEW DELHI, Monday (Reuters) India said comments by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf that Kashmir remained the core problem between the South Asian rivals were unhelpful for progress in their nascent peace process. In a video address from Pakistan to an Indian business conference in New Delhi on Saturday, Musharraf said the dispute over Kashmir was at the heart of the troubles between India and Pakistan. "We must persevere... if there is no movement towards a solution, I am afraid everything will slide back to square one," he said in the address televised nationally across India. Late on Sunday, the Indian Foreign Ministry said a joint statement issued after groundbreaking talks between Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in January had made no reference to any issue being central. "There is no reference to any so-called central or core issue, but to addressing all bilateral issues, including Jammu and Kashmir," the ministry said in a statement. "Any unilateral interpretation of the Joint Press Statement is not conducive to building trust, or taking the process forward; nor is public rhetoric, which is also contrary to the understandings and restraints observed since January," it added, in one of the strongest-worded statements since the January meeting. |
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