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Pakistan's
Prime Minister tells ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Urdu, Vajpayee has the will to resolve
the Kashmir dispute
Pakistan's
Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali has told the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ of his wish
that he and Indian PM Atal Behari Vajpayee could make history by
taking initiatives that would resolve the Kashmir problem.
Mr
Jamali said: "If we can do this, we will both always live in
history."
In
an exclusive interview to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Urdu Service with ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Islamabad
Correspondent Zaffar Abbas, the prime minister said: "As I
spoke to Mr Vajpayee on telephone, I felt that he has the will to
resolve this long-standing dispute and I am sure we can do it and
we will do it."
Mir
Zafarullah Jamali said he does not doubt the intentions of his Indian
counterpart and he hoped that both prime ministers could find a
solution to the Kashmir issue through dialogue.
Mr
Jamali admitted that there were 'hawks' in both India and Pakistan
and they could create complications in the resolution of the Kashmir
issue. But he hoped that they would be bridled: "We can control
them," he said.
Mr
Jamali spurned concerns that the talks with India would end in the
traditional bitterness and remain inconclusive: "I can tell
from my own experience in politics that Mr Vajpayee is serious about
the business this time, and let me assure you that there is going
to be no break from now on."
In
his detailed interview, Pakistan's prime minister also explained
how he would find a way out of domestic pressures and take the opposition
along to deal with the Kashmir problem.
On
the back of a consensus reached in a recent meeting with the opposition
in Islamabad, the prime minister said that the opposition parties
were on his side in this matter.
Talking
about the opposition's anger over the legal framework order (LFO),
and especially over the question of the powers of the president,
Mr Jamali said the best forum to address such issues was the parliament.
He
said he believed that all political issues could be resolved through
negotiations.
The
complete text of Mr Jamali's interview can be found on
Notes
to Editors
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