Islamabad: Asserting that no road map has been worked out to resolve the Kashmir issue, Pakistan today (May 10, 2004) said it hoped the peace process initiated by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf will not "take a dip" in the light of exit poll projections of a hung Parliament after the Lok Sabha polls.

"There is no road map on Kashmir. When we start the Foreign Secretaries and Foreign Ministers meetings, they will start the quest for the road map for the road to peace and conflict resolution. But there is no road map so far," Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan told reporters in Islamabad.

"What happened on February 18 was that the two Foreign Secretaries met and came up with calendar of meetings from March to August. The whole process will culminate with the Foreign Ministers' meeting. Right now this is the only road map that we have," he said.

"We hope that the process that has been initiated by the two countries should not take a dip. In fact it should be an upward curve because the leaders on both sides have been upbeat about their process and they have committed their political to this process.

"The international community is backing it. We need to sustain it," Khan said.

Declining to speculate about the outcome of the Indian general election, Khan said he preferred to wait till the results were announced.

"The momentum of the decisions, which were taken by Prime Minister Vajpayee and President Musharraf should be kept up. It should not undermined by careless and unwarranted utterances," he said.