Kuala Lumpur: Known for drama, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on February 24
made a sudden unannounced appearance in the NAM (Non-Aligned Movement) Media Centre
after raising the Kashmir issue at the plenary of the Summit.
There was jostling among journalists as he walked in with camera crews trying to take
shots and reporters firing questions at him.
Replying to queries on the possibility of resumption of Indo-Pak dialogue, Musharraf
said, "You cannot clap with one hand. My hand is there and I have said that many
times and I am tired about this. If they (India) are not interested, I am least
interested."
Musharraf said he raised the Kashmir issue as he considered it to be
"important".
The Pakistani leader dropped by at the Media Centre at a time when Foreign Secretary
Kanwal Sibal was giving India's response to Musharraf raking up the Kashmir issue at
the Summit in violation of the NAM charter.
Charging Musharraf with suffering from "political schizophrenia", Sibal said the
Pakistani leader had raked up the Kashmir issue "because of his compulsive anti-India
stand. "He (Musharraf) is short of vision and long on venom."
PTI