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Vajpayee serious about peace, says Jamali

IANS, Islamabad
Pakistani Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali said Atal Bihari Vajpayee is "serious and sincere" about restoring peace in the region and hopes that hawks in both countries will not derail the process.
"He is serious that peace should come in and both countries should develop people-to-people contacts," Jamali said in an interview with the BBC.
Pakistan, Jamali said, was ready for talks at "any level" but cautioned against hardliners on both sides who may want to derail the nascent process.
"The unfortunate part is having some of the hawks on both sides," Jamali contended.
"I think a few gestures and acts
have to be made so that we can get to a consensus at a level where we could take proper and appropriate decisions," said Jamali, who came to power following elections last year.
The Daily Times reported Saturday that the first meeting between the two prime ministers could take place either at the U.N. General Assembly session in September or at SAARC summit that Pakistan has proposed be held in Islamabad in the first half of December.
Jamali told the BBC that Vajpayee provided an opening by offering a "hand of friendship" and Pakistan picked up the "impetus" to end the 17-month deadlock on the sub-continent since the December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament that New Delhi blamed on terrorist groups backed
by Islamabad.
The two countries had staged their biggest military mobilisation in 50 years, amassing more than a million troops along their winding frontier. India unilaterally deescalated in October 2002.
Since Vajpayee's dramatic offer, made in Srinagar in April, both countries have upgraded their diplomatic relations and announced their intention to resume air, road and rail links.
"This was the deadlock which I inherited," and that was why, Jamali said, he "grabbed the opportunity" offered by Vajpayee to end the impasse.
Jamali stressed that the two countries, which have fought two wars over Kashmir, should resume their dialogue to resolve all outstanding issues.
"It has to be a step-by-step measure," Jamali maintained.
Holding that negotiations were the only way to get over contentious issues, he said: "You cannot fight wars, there has to be dialogue".
Earlier an AFP report says, India's hardline Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani said Friday India was not asking Pakistan to change its stand on Kashmir but to change its views on "terrorism".
"I want to emphasise that we are not asking them (Pakistan) to abandon their views on Kashmir but change their views on terrorism," Advani told reporters on board an aircraft on the way to the western commercial hub of Bombay, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported.