Islamabad: Ruling out chances of Islamabad accepting LoC (Line of Control) as border to resolve Kashmir issue, President Pervez Musharraf has indicated that India and Pakistan would be holding three rounds of talks at Foreign Secretary-level, beginning from next month to work out a step-by-step approach to discuss Kashmir and other matters.

"We have neither accepted the idea of making the LoC a permanent border before nor is there any question of accepting it in the future talks with India," he reportedly told the leaders of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) while apprising them of his meeting with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Musharraf also admitted that the methodology for the talks agreed by the two countries in the meeting between him and Vajpayee was "a re-enactment of the Lahore process", according to the resume of the President's meeting on Thursday (Jan 8,2004) with PoK leaders, published in the local daily 'Dawn' today (Jan 10,2004).

Musharraf told the Kashmiri leaders from PoK that, as per the understanding reached during the recent political contacts between leaders of the two countries at the highest level, India and Pakistan have agreed for a "step-by-step approach" under which there would be "three crucial Foreign-Secretary level rounds of talks" between the two countries starting next month.