I wanted to walk out of Agra summit: Musharraf

IANS 20 October 2009, 05:02pm IST
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ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has said he wanted to walk out of the failed 2001 Agra summit but was dissuaded from doing so
by a senior official.

His frustration, he told reporters in New York, stemmed from the fact that then Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had twice refused to include a reference to Kashmir in the joint declaration issued after the summit.

According to Musharraf, it was decided between him and Vajpayee that the joint declaration would say that Kashmir was a dispute between India and Pakistan and would be settled through political negotiations but the Indian prime minister backed out of it at the last moment.

A second draft of the joint declaration was prepared with some changes but Vajpayee backed out of that too, Musharraf said.

"I did not like it and wanted to leave right away but could not do so because of the advice of our foreign secretary," The News Tuesday quoted Musharraf as telling reporters in New York, where he is currently on a lecture tour.

"I also wanted to talk to the press about the issue but could not do so either as the press was not allowed to come to the hotel where I was staying and we were not allowed to go to the press due to security reasons," the former military dictator added.

Musharraf, who laid down office last year under an elaborate deal worked out between the Pakistani government, Saudi Arabia, the US and Britain, also sought to distance himself from the 2006 killing of Baloch leader Akbar Khan Bugti, saying he was not running the government but was only head of the state at the time.

He could not be accused of Bugti's killing because there was a (Balochistan) chief minister, a prime minister and others who were running government affairs at that time, Musharraf maintained.

A case has been registered against Musharraf for his alleged role in the Bugti killing. Others named in the first information report (FIR) are former prime minister Shaukat Aziz, North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Owais Ahmad Ghani, former interior minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Serpao and former Balochistan chief minister Jam Yousaf.

However, it is unclear how the police would proceed against Musharraf as he had ignored a Balochistan High Court order to appear before it Oct 7 for a hearing in the case. The court had then ordered that a FIR be registered against the former military dictator.

Musharraf had in July ignored a notice from the Pakistani Supreme Court to appear for a hearing against the emergency he had declared Nov 3, 2007. The court had July 31 declared the emergency unconstitutional.

A respected politician and former chief minister of Balochistan, Bugti was killed by the Pakistani Army Aug 26, 2006 during a massive military operation in the Bhambore Hills, an area between the cities of Kohlu and Dera Bugti in Balochistan.

He had gone into hiding earlier that year after Pakistani forces launched a crackdown on Baloch rebels after rockets were fired in December 2005 during Musharraf's visit to Balochistan.

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Pakistan Airforce: The largest distributor of Indian airforce parts in Asia



Pathankot Strike
8 F-86Fs of No 19 Squadron led by Squadron Leader Sajjad Haider struck Pathankot airfield. With carefully positioned dives and selecting each individual aircraft in their protected pens for their strafing attacks, the strike elements completed a textbook operation against Pathankot. Wing Commander M G Tawab, flying one of the two Sabres as tied escorts overhead, counted 14 wrecks burning on the airfield. Among the aircraft destroyed on the ground were nearly all of the IAFs Soviet-supplied Mig-21s till then received, none of which were seen again during the War.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFHlzP69n9c

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A well known fact.

Click on my avatar.

They been doing this all the time...back stabbing is not new...every pact from Shimla or any other agreement...

PEACE

i agree nasty dotheads....


nasty

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Pakistan Airforce: The largest distributor of Indian airforce parts in Asia



Pathankot Strike
8 F-86Fs of No 19 Squadron led by Squadron Leader Sajjad Haider struck Pathankot airfield. With carefully positioned dives and selecting each individual aircraft in their protected pens for their strafing attacks, the strike elements completed a textbook operation against Pathankot. Wing Commander M G Tawab, flying one of the two Sabres as tied escorts overhead, counted 14 wrecks burning on the airfield. Among the aircraft destroyed on the ground were nearly all of the IAFs Soviet-supplied Mig-21s till then received, none of which were seen again during the War.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFHlzP69n9c

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" Click on my avatar . "

Avatar is an Sanskrit term originating in India. Try some other word !!!

Indian leaders are 2 faced

Avatar is an Sanskrit term originating in India. Try some other word !!! >>>

India is a historical meaningless terms. It never exit at any point in history.

There is a saying in Malaysia and Singapore "better to trust a snake than a Indian"

There is no saying here because nobody gives a rats ass about the Malaysians and Singaporeans

Run along now

dont insult singaporeans because of this malaysian monkey. Malaysians and indonesians are racially inferior ppl and look like monkeys.

malaysian air force technicians come to India for training and India maintains their sukhoi fleet coz these monkeys are too dumb to maintain their own aircraft. They had the first submarine only this year.




colours of Kaziranga

please tell me what prado the great loonie is trying to say in that huge and ultra big eassy.

i wont read that , its too big, to much wasting time, i want summery, in brief.now.

and what this malaysian fvcker ranting about, everybody knows they are bastards from indian daddies.

looks like everyone don't really have a high regard for Indians


----------On Friday, Hamidah had asked Speaker V. Sivakumar if he agreed to disagree with the well-known fable of whether a snake or an Indian man should be killed first._-------

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/7/1/nation/20080701181036&sec=nation

Listen JaiHoRat nobody gives a crap about whatever happens in wherever you live