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"Pakistan will not start a war. We support solving the conflict through peaceful means,'' Gen. Musharraf told reporters in Dushanbe, during a stopover on his way to the Asian summit in Kazakhstan that Mr. Vajpayee was also to attend. He had said for months that he wanted a dialogue with Mr. Vajpayee over Kashmir, but Mr. Vajpayee said that there must be a stop to terrorist attacks by Islamic militants crossing into Kashmir.
" I'm ready to meet anywhere and at any level. I would like the talks to be one-on-one, but if (Vajpayee) he doesn't want to, I will not insist,'' Gen. Musharraf said. He was optimistic about the Russian President, Vladimir Putin's offer to mediate talks this week between the leaders on the sidelines of the Kazakhstan summit. "I think that he (Putin) can persuade India to join a dialogue,'' Gen. Musharraf said. The Tajikistan President, Emomali Rakhmonov, said today his country was also willing to facilitate the start of negotiations between India and Pakistan, according to the Interfax news agency— AP India has demanded that Pakistan fulfil a promise to end support for what it calls ``cross-border terrorism'', and the United States has also asked the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, to do more to prevent militants crossing from Pakistan to India. Sources close to the Kashmiri separatist groups in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, said they had received the message. ``We have been asked to stop sending militants across the Line of Control,'' a militant source told Reuters. ``They have been asked, so infiltration has virtually stopped,'' another source close to the militants said. ``The instruction was issued around a week ago or so.''
Pak. blocks funds to madrasas
Pakistani authorities have stopped funding 115 Islamic religious schools (madrasas) across the country for their involvement in extremism and militancy. The institutions were found involved in ``sectarian violence and terrorism,'' Mufti Abdul Qavi, member of the Pakistan Madrasa Education Board, told a news conference in Multan. They will not be entitled to financial assistance from the Government and their activities will be under observation. The action follows the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf's decision to crack down on extremism and curb religious militancy. He has already banned five radical Islamic groups— AFP
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