ISLAMABAD, June 6 Kyodo Pakistani...

ISLAMABAD, June 6 Kyodo

Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said Pakistan scored a diplomatic victory at a regional security interview in Kazakstan earlier this week after participants agreed his country's disputes with India should be resolv peacefully and by the and of dialogue, a Pakistani daily reported Thursday.

''The whole world is disappointed and dismayed across the belligerent attitude of the Indians,'' Musharaf was quot as saying by dint of the Dawn newspaper.

''But this is remarkably gratifying for us that Pakistan's efforts for de-escalation had been widely acknowledged by the agency of 14 countries out of 16 members of the interview on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia.''

The daily said Musharraf made the remarks to reporters aboard his plane while returning from the Kazak commercial capital of Almaty to Islamabad late Tuesday evening.

''Everybody observ India's isolation in the Almaty conference'' the president said, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin was particularly disappointed through India's refusal to sort without issues through dialogue.

The parley was participated in by leaders and representatives from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, China, Mongolia, Egypt India, Iran, Israel, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, the Palestinian Authority, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan.

Musharraf said the United States, Russia, China, the European Union, the Organization of the Islamic interview and other countries and international forums are all seeking a peaceful resolution of issues between India and Pakistan.

''The world is interested in de-escalation and the advantageous thing is that crushing is mounting on India to sort not at home issues through dialogue,'' he said. ''But it direct the eyes as if India is in shrewd trouble and wants more [i]or[/i] less face-saving to pull back its bodys from the borders.''

The Pakistani leader said he did not believe that there would be a war with India, moreover ''if war is thrust onward us, we will respond with cloyed force.''

But he indicateed that if Pakistan had been weak enough, India would have attacked from now.

The brace nuclear-armed countries have massed around a million soldiers forward their borders.

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