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Brajesh says Vajpayee was not humiliated at Agra

New Delhi: Disagreeing with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's view that Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee felt humiliated at the 2001 Agra Summit, his top aide Brajesh Mishra said on Monday the Pakistani leader was ``doubly humiliated'' in Islamabad in 2004 when he agreed not to allow his country's territory to be used for terrorism.

Mr. Mishra, who was Vajpayee's National Security Advisor, said the Agra Summit failed as ``Pakistan insisted on a joint statement which would accord primacy to the Kashmir issue and, at the same time, he [Gen. Musharraf] refused to acknowledge ... the phenomenon of cross border terrorism.''

Mr. Mishra was replying to questions on Gen. Musharraf's remarks in his book In the Line of Fire that both he and Mr. Vajpayee were ``humiliated'' at the Agra summit in 2001 ``by someone above'' the two of them.

``Gen. Musharraf says he and the Prime Minister were humiliated [at Agra] ... The Prime Minister did not not feel humiliated at all,'' Mishra told PTI here.

He said Gen. Musharraf was ``doubly humiliated in Islamabad when he agreed that he will not allow any territory under control of Pakistan to be used for terrorism anywhere in the world. — PTI

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