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Musharraf enters room 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani President: \"First of all certainly I hope the one thing that we ought to achieve quite unambiguously is that the core issue is Kashmir and we ought to...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Musharraf enters room \u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani President: \"First of all certainly I hope the one thing that we ought to achieve quite unambiguously is that the core issue is Kashmir and we ought to set a definite direction for its solution and maybe a  time frame towards achieving it. That's what one would certainly like to achieve.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Cutaway wide shot Musharraf\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani President: \"Well I keep saying I'm going with cautious optimism. The optimism part is certainly the fact that knowing my point of view I have been invited. So therefore one could presume that prime minister Vajpayee is serious and sincere about addressing the core issue of Kashmir and moving towards its resolution. And  then he did give a statement quite recently, that he would like to address this issue and move away from the beaten track. But however my caution is because of other statements which have come up in the recent past, talking of Kashmir being a part of India and talking of the Kashmir issue, involving only the Pakistan occupied Kashmir and of course the fifty years history where we have being trying to resolve it but we always sidetrack this main issue and prefer to dwell in the irritant parts of the disputes, the minor parts of the disputes and not addressing the Kashmir issue squarely. So again I would say I go with cautious optimism. There is optimism surely, but at the same time I am very cautious.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Cutaway Musharraf\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani President: \"On both sides after these 53 years of conflict, blood has been spilt and we have fought a number of wars maybe there is a realisation on the public of both sides that we need to move forward towards resolution of the core issue and improve relations between these two countries, because really it is the relations between Pakistan and India which effect not only the one fifth of humanity living in these two countries, but also the entire South Asian region.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Cutaway interviewer asks him if he is standing for election in 2002\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani President\u003cbr/\u003eQ: Can you say whether you yourself will stand for election in 2002?\u003cbr/\u003eA \"No not at all. Absolutely not. I'm not at all a politician and I don't think that I am cut for politics. Maybe I'm too straight. I'm not a politician and I'm certainly not going to stand for election.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Cutaway photograph of Musharraf\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE:(English) General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani President: \"Well to the Indian people? I would like to say they must see the reality, the reality on the ground of the the tension between the two countries I would like to sincerely ask them or urge them to resolve our disputes for the benefit of the people of India and Pakistan, poverty stricken people of India and Pakistan, for the economic progression of this region we must remove tension between us and we can only remove tension between us by resolving the Kashmir dispute.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Cutaway photograph of Musharraf\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE:(English) General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani President: (Q There are reports that you will not be meeting with the Hurriyat Conference?) A: \"I would love to meet them and its in the fitness of things certainly they be allowed to meet me. So it entirely depends on the Indians and the Indian government and I would like to urge them that it's only logical that they be allowed to meet me.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Cutaway Musharraf\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE:(English) General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani President: (Q Again there are rumours floating around Delhi that there is an Indian peace activist who's been imprisoned here called Viskas Singh and the rumours are that you are about to release him as a good will gesture on the eve of your visit. Can you comment on that?)\u003cbr/\u003eA: \"Peace activist? Was this the cyclist who entered Pakistan ? Yes we'll release him. But he did a wrong thing alright. He wanted to come in and the visa was denied to him and he entered in spite of that without valid documents. So what happened was absolutely illegal and incorrect, no country would allow anybody to enter without valid documents , so he had to be arrested and he was tried and punished. However, certainly we will release him.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Cutaway Musharraf with wife\u003cbr/\u003eBetter relations between India and Pakistan are impossible without first resolving the dispute over Kashmir, the Himalayan region that has ignited two of three wars between the two South Asian neighbors, Pakistan's president said in an interview.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I hope the one thing that we want to achieve quite unambiguously is the core issue is Kashmir,\" President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said in an exclusive interview late Tuesday with The Associated Press and Associated Press Television News.\u003cbr/\u003eMusharraf said his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee July 14-16 in New Delhi will be the first time leaders on both sides will sit down with Kashmir on the agenda. \u003cbr/\u003eLooking relaxed after a tennis game and dressed in a grey suit and purple tie, the military leader who seized power in a 1999 bloodless coup said he hoped Indian leaders shared his sincerity about reaching an accord over Kashmir.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter Pakistan was carved out of a divided India in 1947 following the end of British rule, the fate of the princely state of Kashmir was left undecided by the old colonial rulers. \u003cbr/\u003eIndia took two-thirds of the lush green Himalayan region, and Pakistan seized the rest, fomenting a row that continues to this day.\u003cbr/\u003ePakistan supports a 1989 uprising in Kashmir, the only Muslim-majority state in Hindu-dominated India. \u003cbr/\u003eNew Delhi accuses Pakistan of sponsoring Islamic militants who launch cross-border raids from secret camps on the border.\u003cbr/\u003ePakistan denies the charge, saying the struggle is indigenous, and in turn accuses Indian troops in Kashmir of widespread human rights violations.\u003cbr/\u003eIndia says 30,000 people have died in fighting since the uprising, but independent human rights group say double that number have been killed.\u003cbr/\u003ePakistan claims India has 600,000 troops in Kashmir.\u003cbr/\u003eLast month, Vajpayee said he had invited Musharraf for talks in hopes of creating a \"proper climate\" for resolution of the Kashmir row, which has sapped resources of both desperately poor countries and spurred an arms race that has led to nuclear weapons on both dies.\u003cbr/\u003eThe dispute, which led to 11 weeks of intense fighting two years ago when intruders from Pakistan crossed a cease-fire line into the Indian portion of Kashmir, is considered one of the world's most dangerous flashpoints and the most likely scenario for a nuclear war.\u003cbr/\u003eMusharraf, who recently declared himself president, was unequivocal about returning Pakistan to democracy next year. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics,\" Musharraf said. \"I am certainly not going to stand for election.\"\u003cbr/\u003eA decorated army commando who fought in two wars with India, Musharraf was at ease during the interview at his Army House residence, an old, whitewashed building with manicured lawns and high ceilings that was built in the 1920s, when the British ruled the Indian subcontinent.\u003cbr/\u003eAsked what he hoped to achieve over Kashmir, Musharraf said: \"We ought to set a definite direction for its solution and maybe a time frame toward achieving it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eHe said relations between Pakistan and India affected not only then one-fifth of humanity living in these countries, but also the entire South Asian region. \u003cbr/\u003eMusharraf said the whole world was watching the forthcoming summit. \"We must not let down the people of India and Pakistan, the people of the region, and the world,\" Musharraf 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