An exercise in futility, says Thackeray

MUMBAI, JUNE 18. The Shiv Sena chief, Mr. Bal Thackeray, today said the proposed talks between the Prime Minister, Mr. A.B. Vajpayee, and the Pakistan Chief Executive, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, would be ``an exercise in futility''.

``There will not be any concrete outcome of the summit talks and we should not expect much from it,'' he was quoted as saying in the party mouthpiece Saamna.

Mr. Thackeray said:``Gen. Musharraf is indulging in doublespeak on the Kashmir issue by sending out conflicting signals. In one posture, he was trying to project himself as a messiah of peace while in another he was articulating a rigid and uncompromising stand on the Kashmir issue.''

The issue would continue to defy a solution if Pakistani rulers stuck to their stand, Mr. Thackeray said.

- PTI

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