Islamabad: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Sunday said that his talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the margins of the NAM summit in Havana "augured" well for resolving bilateral issues, including the Kashmir problem.
Musharraf, who arrived in New York from the Cuban capital to address the UN General Assembly session, said that his meeting with Singh on Saturday night was "successful" and "augured" well for resolving problems between India and Pakistan.
In his first remarks after the meeting, he said the joint statement issued after the talks was to the satisfaction of both sides.
He said he would not call it a victory but that the peace process had won, the state-run APP news agency reported.
Musharraf said that during his meeting with Singh, they did not go into the specifics of solutions of various issues currently being discussed by the two countries.
“We agreed to narrow down the divergences and strengthen convergences. The road forward is the willingness to discuss and resolve the Jammu and Kashmir dispute," he said.
He said the talks at the Foreign Secretary-level between Pakistan and India would be held expeditiously. "We have not fixed the dates but they are going to be held very soon," he said.
Pakistan's official media also hailed the joint statement issued after the Singh-Musharraf meeting as a win-win proposition as it addressed the concerns of both countries.
Musharraf, who would spend the next ten days in the US during which he would address the UN General Assembly session in New York and later travel to Washington for talks with US President George W Bush, said that Pakistan government's peace deal in North Waziristan tribal area was not with the Taliban but with the tribal elders there.
It was a process launched and carried forward by the grand Jirga or elders' council, he said. “There has been no agreement with the Taliban nor will there be any with them in future," he added.
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