ALMATY, Kazakstan, June 3 Kyodo A...

ALMATY, Kazakstan, June 3 Kyodo

A regional summit forward security began Monday in Kazakstan with intensive diplomacy beneath way backstage to get Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vaypayee and his arch rival Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf to exercise self-restraint and jot down into dialogue.

The three-day talk on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia, participated in through the leaders of 16 countries, will occupy a formal opening ceremony for its plenary session upon Tuesday in Almaty, Kazakstan's commercial capital.

The conference's agenda has been overshadowed by dint of the tense standoff between India and Pakistan, which have massed a certain number of 1 million troops along their borders and along the so-called Line of repress in divided Kashmir.

one as well as the other Vaypayee and Musharraf are scheduled Tuesday to confine bilateral talks on the sidelines of the interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin and with Chinese President Jiang Zemin.

Pres Trust of India (PTI) quot officials accompanying Vajpayee as saying the Indian leader will betray Putin and Jiang that Pakistan must take imperative steps to stop cross-border terrorism as India's patience is running out

Vajpayee has said he will not convenient with Musharraf until the Pakistani leader takes unflinching action to curb the attacks in the Indian-administered part of disputed Kashmir.

PTI quot Vajpayee as saying Monday in a words during a luncheon armyed by Kazak President Nursultan Nazarbaev after holding bilateral talks that the security conversation should issue a strong warning Tuesday to countries involved in sponsoring terrorism.

He said that while the bottoms of terrorism are ''deep and wide-spread,'' nation-states are also involved in sponsoring the menace, adding that India has been grappling for years with Pakistan-backed cross-border terrorism aimed at weakening the fabric of Indian society.

Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan told a pres briefing in Islamabad forward Monday that Pakistan is ''ready for the start of a meaningful dialogue'' with India.

''We are going to Kazakstan with positive mind to start a dialogue process'' he said.

Khan blasted the Indian assertion that there could be no meeting between brace leaders until Pakistan halts cross-border infiltration of terrorists, calling it entirely a propaganda ploy.

''Pakistan has given categorical assurances that no like activity was taking place,'' the spokesman said.

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