Pakistan's ruling PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari on Friday indirectly held the military rulers in his country responsible for terror attacks on India, including the serial blasts in Mumbai and the attack on Parliament.

"During two tenures of PPP in office, neither of our peoples or Armies had to face a Kargil-like situation, nor were there terrorist attacks on Indian targets such as the Bombay blasts or the Indian Parliament attack," Zardari said in a 'special vision statement' read out at a conference organised by the Tehelka magazine in  London [Images],

"It is not easy to keep the peace and simultaneously rein in the militants but the PPP government did so," he said at the conference 'India Pakistan - Designing a New Future.'

He said during the rule of the PPP government, the Simla Agreement was signed between Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi [Images] and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1972.

As a result of that agreement, India and Pakistan have not gone to full war although they were engaged in conflict, the PPP co-chairman said.

On the issue of Kashmir, he said, "We must make a viable peace. This is a solvable problem that must not take further lives."

Pending a final settlement, "We agree with the statement of your Prime Minister supporting an autonomous Kashmir  running much of its own affairs," Zardari said.

"A Commission can be established between the two countries and the leaders of Kashmir themselves to work out what should be done in foreign and defence affairs," he said.

Zardari said while working out the solution to Kashmir, "We should not allow slow progress on it to be an obstacle to work in other cooperative matters."

"There are several ways to strengthen our relations. One important way is through economic integration and trade, business cooperation, media exchanges, transportation links between our two countries, the energy requirements of our economies, sports and entertainment events, cooperation in the Information Technologies, the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, in medicine, education and agriculture."

Zardari said the PPP believed that Indo-Pak relations could and should be creatively rediscovered.

"It is a matter of great satisfaction that today our political opponents as well as the military establishment in Pakistan realise the importance of peace -- for making or breaking nations."

 Zardari favoured developing Indo-Pak trade on the lines of India and China.