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Pakistan on Monday said reports about President Pervez Musharraf's plan to discuss the conversion of the Line of Control in Jammu & Kashmir into an international border between India and Pakistan, during his talks with US President George W Bush in New York this week, were "speculative".
"These are all totally speculative reports," foreign ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmed Khan said in Islamabad when asked about such reports in the Pakistani media.
Khan said the Bush-Musharraf parleys would focus on the situation in the region vis-a-vis India, the Kashmir issue, and other international matters of mutual interest to Pakistan and the United States.
He welcomed the Ram Jethmalani-led Kashmir Committee's stand that the issue should be resolved peacefully and the Hurriyat leaders should be allowed to visit Pakistan for consultations.
Asked about the Jethmalani Committee's intention to hold talks with its Pakistani counterpart, Khan said, "We have to wait and see what further developments take place."
He said the details of the settlement and the modus operandi to be adopted to end the dispute could only be formulated once a dialogue was resumed.
Asked if Jethmalani's initiative seemed to have the patronage of the Indian government, Khan remarked that there was nothing definite about it. "If India is serious about dialogue, it should come forward and start a dialogue."
He hoped that the United Nations and the international community would continue its efforts to bring the two countries to the negotiating table.
PTI
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