Britain's Foreign Secretary Talks With Musharraf

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Britain's Foreign Secretary Talks With Musharraf

Britain's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw begins talks in Islamabad Tuesday, aimed at settling the ongoing border tensions between Pakistan and India.

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Britain's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw begins talks in Islamabad Tuesday, aimed at settling the ongoing border tensions between Pakistan and India.

A nationally televised address overnight by the Pakistani President will provide a key focus of the talks.

In an apparent concession, President Pervez Musharraf Monday night called the militants attacking Indian-controlled Kashmir 'terrorists', not 'freedom fighters' and sought to paint them as a rogue element not under Pakistani control.

He also reiterated an earlier promise not to let terrorism be perpetrated from Pakistani territory.

But matching those concessions was a maintenance of the hardline against the prospect of an Indian attack.

The British Foreign Secretary will spend Tuesday and Wednesday in the Pakistan capital, Islamabad, before heading onto New Delhi.

He is expected to float the idea of peace talks in Kazakhstan next week and international monitors to help Pakistan oversee a clean-up of militant training camps in the part of Kashmir it controls.

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