Oregon daily emerald., June 03, 2002, Page 5, Image 5

Indian, Pakistani
leaders won’t meet
at regional summit
By Michael Dorgan
and Ken Moritsugu
Knight Ridder Newspapers
NEW DELHI, India — With In
dia and Pakistan teetering at the
brink of a war that could go nu
clear, Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee left Sunday for a 16-na
tion regional summit in Kaza
khstan and ruled out any meeting
with Pakistan President Pervez
Musharraf, who was also en route
to the summit.
Vajpayee, before boarding a
plane for his four-day visit to the
Kazakhstan capital Almaty, called
on Pakistan to stop the influx of Is
lamic militants into India-con
trolled parts of the disputed territo
ry of Kashmir, which both Pakistan
and India claim.
“I have no such plans (to talk to
Musharraf),” he told local reporters,
disappointing hopes for any early
end to the crisis.
Musharraf and Vajpayee were ex
pected to meet separately with
Russian President Vladimir Putin,
who has offered to try to mediate
tensions that already have resulted
in daily exchanges of artillery and
machine gun fire across the Line of
Control that separates Pakistan and
Indian forces in Kashmir.
In Washington, Sen. Bob Gra
ham, D-Fla., chairman of the Sen
ate Intelligence Committee, said
on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the
U.S. would have to reassess the
U.S. military mission in nearby
Afghanistan. “Can we keep thou
sands of troops in the theater
when there is a threat of nuclear
war?” he asked.
Vajpayee said that India would
respond positively if Musharraf
followed through on his pledge to
not allow militants to use Pakistan
and Pakistan-controlled regions of
Kashmir as staging areas for at
tacks on India.
Musharraf, since announcing a
crackdown on militants in January,
has repeatedly denied any govern
ment involvement in a series of re
cent terrorist attacks against India
• that has provoked a mobilization of
700,000 Indian troops along the
1,750-mile India-Pakistan border.
India is not convinced, and even
leaders of some countries friendly
with Pakistan, including President
Bush, have expressed doubts that
Musharraf has acted forcefully to
end the incursions.
Eager to dispel those doubts,
Musharraf plans to send emissaries
to the United States and other
countries to explain Islamabad’s ef
forts and intentions.
“Pakistan will not start a war,”
Musharraf told reporters Sunday
on a stopover in Tajikistan. “We
support solving the conflict
through peaceful means.”
Musharraf said he would like to
discuss the crisis with Vajpayee, at
the Kazakhstan conference or any
where else.
“I’m ready to meet anywhere and
at any level,” he said. “I would like
the talks to be one-on-one, but if
(Vajpayee) he doesn’t want to, I will
not insist.”
Leaders of both nations are under
intense domestic pressure to adopt
an inflexible stance.
‘‘My view is that Gen.
Musharraf may not be able
to deliver now. He’s under
great pressure from India
and from Islamic militants.
He’s getting besieged.”
B.A. Malik
former Pakistani diplomat
Indian Defense Minister George
Fernandes on Sunday told a confer
ence in Singapore that Musharraf’s
pledge to crack down on terrorism
following a suicide-squad attack on
the Indian parliament in December
was “merely cosmetic,” and that
the Indian government was under
“intense” pressure to launch an at
tack against militants in Kashmir.
But Fernandes said India “will
not be impulsive” in dealing with
Pakistan, suggesting that there is
still hope that a flurry of 11th hour
diplomacy by the United States and
other countries may avert war.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
Richard Armitage is scheduled to
visit both New Delhi and Islamabad
later this week, and Secretary of De
fense Donald Rumsfeld will follow
a few days later.
B.A. Malik, a former Pakistani
diplomat, predicted that Armitage
and Rumsfeld would lean on
Musharraf to pledge to stop the
militants in Kashmir, but would
not succeed.
“My view is that Gen. Musharraf
may not be able to deliver now,”
Malik said in an interview. “He’s
under great pressure from India
and from Islamic militants. He’s
getting besieged.”
Also on Sunday, the leaders of
political and religious parties in the
Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir
issued a declaration demanding
that Pakistan “resist all external or
internal pressure aimed to change
its present Kashmir policy.”
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