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Pakistan, India Must Move Toward Peace: Pakistani Envoy

A Pakistani envoy stressed Thursday in Cairo that Pakistan and India, which have been confronting on the border, must move toward peace.

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A Pakistani envoy stressed Thursday in Cairo that Pakistan and India, which have been confronting on the border, must move toward peace.

"We must move toward peace and a peaceful resolution of the problems, and the core problem of Kashmir needs to be addressed," said former Pakistani President Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari, while addressing members of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs.

"This is very important that we deal with the problems in a civilized manner that we start talking to each other. And if we cannot start talking to each other, there will be no progress," said Leghari, who arrived here on Wednesday as an envoy of President Pervez Musharraf.

Earlier in the day, Leghari met separately with Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Obeid and Arab League chief Amr Moussa and conveyed to them a message on the current tensions between Pakistan and India.

"The people of Pakistan do not want war," Leghari said, while accusing India of threatening a war on Pakistan by claiming that "teaching Pakistan a lesson."

"War between India and Pakistan is something so horrible to contemplate ... neither side will be the winner, we will all be thelosers," he stressed.

The Pakistani envoy said he believes that problems between the two countries should not be solved "through war or warlike activities."

Relations between the two nuclear neighbors have been tense due to three deadly attacks by extremists on Indian targets since last November.

India has accused Pakistan of failing to rein in extremist groups and being responsible for the attacks. Pakistan has vehemently denied such an accusation.

"Pakistan has been calling again and again, as well as PresidentPervez Musharraf himself, for the resumption of the process of dialog between top leaders of the two countries," he said.

He said that the current tensions between the two countries havecaused an adverse effect on the peoples of the two countries due tothe cost of maintaining troops on the border at the highest state of alert and an unfavorable environment for investment.

The international community has by far intensified diplomatic efforts to help defuse the Pakistan-India tensions.

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