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Something happening in Afghanistan from Pakistan: Musharraf

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Islamabad, Feb 12, IRNA - Pakistani President General Pervez Musharra 
said Thursday that something has happened in Afghanistan from 
Pakistani side but rejected the notion that everything happening in 
the neighbouring is from Pakistan. 
"On the western border, certainly everything is not happening from 
Pakistan but certainly something is happening from Pakistan," 
Musharraf told the top military officers at the National Defence 
College (NDC) Islamabad, according to PTV. 
"Let us not bluff ourselves. Now whatever is happening from 
Pakistan must be stopped and that is what we are trying to do," the 
general said. 
Talking about India, the president underlined the need for taking 
forward the Indo-Pak peace process. 
"I am very glad that there is breakthrough with India. I hope this 
peace process carries forward towards resolution of all disputes 
including Kashmir," Musharraf said. 
"Kashmir is vital national interest," he said adding, "I will be 
the last man to compromise on vital national interest. That can not 
be done. But we have to resolve it in a peaceful manner." 
"We have to bring harmony to the region. It will be beneficial to 
us as to the India as well as to the region," he maintained. 
He said he has made it very clear there is relationship between 
going forward on the confidence-building measures and dialogue process
including the issue of Kashmir. 
About nuclear proliferation, the president said that everything not
happened from Pakistan. "Everything is happening from many other 
countries but things happened from here also and we need correct our 
house we are a responsible nation." 
"We must not proliferate," he said and added that "whatever action,
the decision that we have taken I think is in line with correcting 
this perception that we will not proliferate." 
He said there is another perception that Pakistan is an intolerant 
society and that the country has any extremist society. 
"This is most terrible. We are a moderate Islamic state. We may be 
religious but we are not extremists." 
He said majority of Pakistanis is moderate but "unfortunately there
is minority of extremists, who I called terrorists". 
"They are the ones who are misusing the name of jehad. But they 
(are) actually striking at our roots internally, causing 
destabilization inside. Now this is the group which needs to be sorted
out." 
Pakistan, he said, has to collectively sort them out. "We are a 
moderate Islamic state. Nobody can change our Islamic identity." 
General Musharraf said Pakistan came into being on a two-nation 
theory on the basis of separate homeland for the Muslims of the 
sub-continent. 
"Therefore the Islamic content can never be ignored," he said 
stressing, that does not mean that Pakitan brings about intolerance 
and extremism into the society. 
TK/TSH/215 
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