JEDDAH. Oct 9 Afghanistan figured prominently in talks between King Fahd and President Ouiam Ishaq Klian of Pakistan on Tuesday, reports AP.

Pakistani officials accompanying Ishaq Khan, speaking on condition they not be named, said the two leaders discussed the numerous initiatives made recently by the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Nations to bring about e peaceful solution to the 13-year-old Afghan crisis.

The officials said the two leaders also discussed the problem with India over Kashmir, bilateral ties and other issues of common concern. Views of the two leaders were described as "identical."

Earlier, Pakistani Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammad Siddiq Kanju told in news conference. “I am hopeful that Ute Afghan issue will be resolved peacefully."

The minister affirmed that former Afghan King Zahir Shah would attend the talks to be held in New York shortly between the Afghan Muslim insurgents, or Mujahedeen, and the Kabul government.

But when asked if the exking would be reinstated, he replied "I do not think so." Their role is vital in helping end the bloodshed in Afghanistan after the United Stales and the Soviet Unidn

pledged a halt lo arms supplies to the feuding parties.

"A war between Pakistan and India over Kashmir is completely ruled out,” he said. "There is no possibility of armed confrontation between the two countries."

Kanju said he met tn New York recently at the UN General Assembly with Indian officials lo discuss Kashmir and the Issue would be taken up when the prime ministers of Pakistan and India meet in Harare during the Commonwealth summit.

The Pakistani president and his delegation, which also includes the oil minister, flew into the Saudi summer capital of Jeddah, on Monday