Musharraf noted that "none of us is in favour of their (Kashmir's) independence" and suggested that a "joint framework for self-governance" of the entire Kashmir region should be worked out as part of solution to the problem.
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday directed the government to ensure that Pervez Musharraf does not leave the country as it began hearing several petitions seeking the former military ruler's trial for treason for subverting the constitution and declaring emergency in 2007.
In his earlier petitions to the courts, including the Supreme Court, Singh said he inadvertently crossed the border and later caught by police and wrongly implicated in the cases.
Musharraf, in his television interview, also sounded a warning of sorts to Sharif and told him to be 'economical' on revealing details.
India on Monday said it was not surprised over former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's admission -- of use of United States' military aid against it during his tenure -- and asked countries providing such help to be 'extremely responsible'. "It doesn't come as a surprise. We have been arguing for some years now that the only problem we have with the US military aid to Pakistan is its misuse against us," Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said.
The new book is already a best seller and has been translated into 20 languages, including Hindi and Hebrew, but surprisingly not in Urdu.
A team formed to investigate former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over the sacking and detention of judges during the 2007 emergency had said in a preliminary report that he cannot be tried under the anti-terrorism act, according to a media report on Wednesday.
A Pakistan minister said the next Parliament would give Musharraf a mandate to stay as president even after the next parliamentary elections to be held in 2007.
Vajpayee insisted that his government believed that there could be no normalcy in ties until there was an end to cross-border terrorism.
As troops fanned out in Pakistan's north-western province to counter activities of a pro-Taliban cleric, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said the main threat to the country's national security is "internal" with a handful of extremists out to disrupt law and order.
District and Sessions Judge Akmal Raza issued the order in Islamabad after lawyer Aslam Ghuman filed an application in his court asking for a case to be registered against Musharraf, who is currently in Europe.
Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has claimed that India's ambition is to weaken Pakistan so that the country can be dominated.
Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has accused India of seeking to "create an anti-Pakistan Afghanistan" as part of its bid to dominate South Asia. Musharraf made these comments at the Washington Ideas Forum. "In Afghanistan, there is some kind of a proxy conflict going on between Pakistan and India," the former military ruler said.
Several retired Pakistani generals have warned that the military might react if there is any move by lawyers or the judiciary to humiliate former army chief Pervez Musharraf, according to a media report on Tuesday.
They may be next month on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Havana.
Soon after the court order, Musharraf's security team quickly rushed him out of the courtroom to his black SUV without being stopped.
Pakistan's ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha held a secret meeting with former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in Dubai and advised him not to return to the country, according to a media report on Monday.
Foreign secretaries of the two nations met in Istanbul. Pakistani hardliners have condemned it.
After being summoned by Pakistan's Supreme Court over his actions during the emergency, ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf may face more legal troubles, with a British Muslim politician announcing that he will move a London court against him for alleged 'war crimes'. Lord Nazir Ahmed of Rotherham, an arch-foe of the former President, has stepped up his campaign against him. The PoK-born Labour peer has announced that 'war crime charges' would be brought against Musharraf.
Pakistan's powerful army 'intends to stay neutral', on the Supreme Court's decision to ask former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to explain why he imposed emergency rule nearly two years ago and sacked over 60 judges, according to a media report on Thursday. A bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, who was among the 60 judges sacked by Musharraf, had on Wednesday issued a notice to the former president.The move sparked speculation in political circles.
Former President Pervez Musharraf has acknowledged his regime secretly cleared United States drone strikes, becoming the first serving or retired Pakistani official to publicly admit that the country had a deal on attacks by the CIA-operated spy planes.
Kaur urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take up the matter with Musharraf as promised by him when she along with Sarabjit's two daughters met him on March 24 during his visit to Amritsar.
Seeking closer ties with Israel, former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf said the Jewish state is a fait accompli, relations with it can help Islamabad come closer to the strong Jewish lobby in the US and in its conflict against India.
Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has claimed that the country's nuclear weapons are very hard targets and can never be attacked by the United States.
Moments after former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in Rawalpindi, President Pervez Musharraf appealed to the nation to maintain peace so as to defeat the nefarious designs of terrorists.
The two left the Firozeshah Kotla cricket ground after watching the start of the game and met at Hyderabad House.
'I am,' Musharraf writes, 'still waiting for Manmohan Singh's outside the box solution.'
The profound significance of the events of the past week lies in that the struggle for civilian supremacy has truly begun in Pakistan and its consequences are going to be far-reaching for India-Pakistan relations, says M K Bhadrakumar.
Zubaida Jalal, a former minister in Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's cabinet, was defeated in Monday's parliamentary polls, television channels reported.
US President George W Bush plans to announce a "substantial discount" on the $5 billion deal to sell F-16s to Pakistan during President Pervez Musharraf's visit to Washington.
Upping the ante, former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto Tuesday asked Pervez Musharraf to quit as President saying the days of dictatorship in Pakistan were over. "We say Musharraf must leave. The time for dictatorship is over. It's time to bring a transfer to democracy," Bhutto told Britain's Sky News in a telephonic interview from Lahore, where police have placed her under house arrest to stop her from leading an anti-emergency rally to Islamabad.
"He maligned Pakistan, brought bad name and I have no sympathies with him. I admit that he gave Pakistan valuable technology for nuclear deterrence but he had no right to disgrace his country," he said.
"I think the Pakistani President has not applied his mind as everything was hotch-potch and the road map was not clear when he was making the proposals," Azad said.
Musharraf has said that the legality of the case will have to be looked into.
Musharraf said the matter needs to come to him after all proceedings and with all its legal implications.
The foreign ministers had met recently in Israel, sparking off protests in Pakistan.
Asked by Wilson Center president Jane Harmon, a former nine-term US lawmaker, if he bore any responsibility for the negligence or the complicity when bin Laden moved to Abbottabad since "most people believe the residence was built and constructed" during his presidency, Musharraf said, "Whether one believes it or not, let me say with confidence, I did not know."
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