Musharraf invites India to 'sustained dialogue'

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Musharraf invites India to 'sustained dialogue'

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Citing Kashmir "the most dangerous dispute in the world," Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday reiterated his policy for peaceful solution and invited his Indian counterpart to a "sustained dialogue."

"Jammu and Kashmir has been rightly described as the most dangerous dispute in the world. A just solution of this dispute holds the key to peace and security in South Asia," Musharraf told world leaders at the general debate of the 58th UN General Assembly.

Musharraf said his is glad that "India has stepped back from its dangerous and failed experiment" in the so-called "coercive diplomacy" last year.

But the president slashed India's policy for "suppressing the legitimate struggle of the Kashmiri people to exercise their right to self-determination in accordance with the UN Security Council resolutions."

"India seeks to exploit the international anti-terrorist sentiment after 9/11, to delegitimize the Kashmiri freedom struggle," he said. "On the contrary, it is India which violates international law by refusing to implement Security Council resolutions and perpetrating gross and consistent violations of human rights in Kashmir."

"It refuses Pakistan's offers of dialogue to address and resolve the Kashmir dispute," he noted.

"Once again, from this august rostrum, I invite India to join Pakistan in a sustained dialogue to resolve the Kashmir dispute," he said, adding that he is convinced that the two emerging nuclear power can find a just solution "acceptable to India, to Pakistan and, above all, to the Kashmiri people."

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