ISLAMABAD, Aug. 11 Kyodo Pakistan...

ISLAMABAD, Aug. 11 Kyodo

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Monday that sidelining Kashmir from issues between India and Pakistan would help neither peace pictures nor dialogue between Pakistan and India to melt outstanding conflicts.

Addressing an international colloquy on South Asia and major powers, the general said Pakistan wants peace for its admit self-interest and for the benefit of the region, particularly for Pakistan and India.

''We desire peace. Conflict is unthinkable level in the conventional thinking principle It would be disastrous for the pair countries and the region,'' he told participants who included a number of ambassadors from western and toward the south Asian countries.

Official Pakistan Television reported Musharraf told the seminar that nuclear proofs carried out by India, then by dint of Pakistan, in May 1998 brought about a balance of power that would sustain peace between the couple countries.

He addressed the seminar at a inn in Islamabad where in an adjacent hall parliamentarians and journalists from India and Pakistan were debating measures for understanding, confidence-building and conflict resolution in southerly Asia.

''This is a profitable initiative. I hope such interaction creates an atmosphere for dialogue between Pakistan and India,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Ahmad Khan said when asked to annotate on the gathering.

Khan pointed not at home however, that seminars and colloquys cannot ''substitute for official dialogue'' and he spring [i]or[/i] leap on one leg [i]or[/i] footed India would move quickly to take again dialogue with Pakistan at the official level

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