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MUSHARRAF ARRIVES IN INDIA TODAY

Delhi for further talks on confidence-building

PALLAB BHATTACHARYA, New Delhi
Ahead of President Pervez Musharraf's three-day visit to India beginning today, India has asked Pakistan not to press for a deadline to resolve the Kashmir issue and said it will propose fresh set of confidence-building measures.
India's External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh told "Outlook" magazine in an interview that "it would not be prudent to impose a time frame or deadline for resolution of the Kashmir issue, an issue which has defied solution for long and which, by all accounts, is complicated."
According to the excerpts of the interview released by the news magazine, Singh said any discussion with Pakistan on Kashmir must be focused "first and foremost on the need to end cross-border terrorism and dismantling the infrastructure of terrorism across the Line of Control."
"There is no question of taking Pakistan off the hook on the issue of cross-border terrorism and terrorism in the (Kashmir) valley," he said. Singh's remarks assume significance as Musharraf had on several occasions in the past talked about setting a timeframe for resolving the Kashmir issue.
The Indian external affairs minister said Pakistan has not yet given formal or informal options on possible resolutions of the Kashmir issue. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had said in the past that his country was ready to look at all options to resolve Kashmir issue except redrawing the maps and another partition of the country. Meanwhile, India's National Security Advisor M K Narayanan told NDTV news channel that Manmohan Singh would put forward during his talks with Musharraf in Delhi a series of new confidencebuilding measures including more bus links.
"When two heads of state meet, they are unlikely to talk about only 'googlies,' 'doosras' and what not. So, we have been sort of catered to the fact that discussion would necessarily have Kashmir as important item on the agenda," he said.
Musharraf reaches Delhi today ostensibly to watch the final one-day international cricket match between India and Pakistan on April 17.
Asked if any specific confidence building measure would be offered to Musharraf, Narayanan said "we have already put these suggestions and we will repeat them." "Most of the meetings will be exclusively between the prime minister and President Musharraf. He will certainly put forward on the table a series of new measures, each one hopefully adding to the level of
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confidence. More meetings and more bus services," he said. The prime minister, according to him, has been talking in terms of a little more opportunity for tourism across the two parts of Kashmir. Last week, India and Pakistan launched the first bus service connecting the two parts of Kashmir in nearly six decades despite threats from four militant groups in what was the boldest confidence building measure in the 15-
month-old peace process so far between the nuclear powered countries.
Although the Musharraf visitis not a state visit but an informal one, it has all the trappings of an official trip. Besides holding talks with Manmohan Singh, he will call on Indian President A P J Abdul Kalam and have meetings with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Leader of the Opposition L KAdvani.
Musharraf begins his visit by offering prayers at the dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti at Ajmer Sharif today where he will fly straight from Islamabad.
PTI adds: Indian security agencies yesterday took control of vital installations, including the place of stay and venues the highly threatened VVIP will visit during his three-day stayin India.
Hordes of police personnel, including those in plain clothes, have swarmed Ferozeshah Kotla, venue of the Indo-Pak one-dayer to be watched by Musharraf and Manmohan Singh.
Security has also been tightened at Taj Hotel where Musharraf will stay along with his delegation and it has been made out of bounds for media persons.