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Peace process on track: Musharraf

Nirupama Subramanian

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has told a Chinese television station that the composite dialogue process between New Delhi and Islamabad was on track but the pace was below his expectations.

The President, who was in China last week for the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation Summit, told China Central Television that the process needed "to be focussed on resolving the core issue of Kashmir," the official Associated Press of Pakistan reported.

Conflict resolution was all the more important to normalise bilateral relations, he said.

Describing the India-United States nuclear deal as a "bilateral arrangement," Gen. Musharraf said Pakistan wanted to be treated on par with India as far as strategic capabilities were concerned, APP said. Pakistan would not like anyone to treat it differently from India "because we have the same status."

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