‘India, Pak need to stand up to terror’

Commenting on yesterday’s militant attack in Pulwama in Kashmir, Pakistan President Musharraf said that the suicide bombing underscored the problems India and Pakistan face in negotiating a Kashmir solution.

‘‘It does cause some problems, but not much, because both sides understand that even if you reach a peace agreement finally …we should still expect some extremists who would not be in agreement and who would carry on (with such attacks),’’ he told Associated Press in an interview. He said both sides ‘‘have to be bold enough’’ to oppose and stand up to all such acts.

‘‘There is nobody who can exercise control on everyone and everything that is happening in Kashmir…I certainly don’t hold a whistle which I can blow and every bullet stops being fired,” he stated. —PTI