ISLAMABAD, June 10 Kyodo Pakistan...

ISLAMABAD, June 10 Kyodo

Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf upon Monday called on India to reciprocate for measures being undertaken by way of Pakistan to de-escalate tension along the couple countries' borders, preferably by resuming bilateral dialogue.

''India has to match what Pakistan is doing and Islamabad is awaiting the Indian answer We have to see what their answer is,'' Musharraf told reporters before embarking upon a three-day visit to United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia..

He said that while he would like India to renew dialogue with Pakistan, India might merely announce some minor measures.

''The initiation of a dialogue proces upon (the disputed territory of) Kashmir -- that is what we expect'' he said, adding, ''There are other minor rejoinders which we will keep examining as to what they really mean.''

India's media has speculated its management may send back some of embassy staff who were earlier recalled from Islamabad and take back rail and air links between sum of two units countries that were severed after last December's terrorist attack forward the Indian parliament.

Since that attack, the couple nuclear-armed rivals have deployed around 1 million soldiers along their borders and the so-called Line of reign over that divides Kashmir.

Musharraf, who was being accompanied on Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar and Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz to the UAE and Saudi Arabia, said the object of his visit to the sum of two units fellow Muslim countries ''is to gain from their wisdom in succession the current crisis in toward the south Asia.

He is suitable to return to Islamabad forward June 12 in time for talks with U Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld who will be arriving in the Pakistani capital the same day.

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