India should have stopped the plane at Amritsar — Musharraf

He charged India with making "baseless" allegation against Pakistan that it was involved in the hijacking of the plane, which is parked at Kandahar airport in Afghanistan with 154 hostages on board.

External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh, when asked whether India suspected Pakistan’s involvement in the hijacking, had said on Sunday that first reports from Kathmandu indicated the possibility of the five hijackers arriving at the Tribhuvan International Airport by a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight.

The Indian Airlines jet was hijacked after it left Kathmandu on Friday. It landed atAmritsar, Lahore, and Dubai where the hijackers offloaded 26 passengers along with the body of a passenger before landing at Kandahar.Gen Musharraf said he ruled out any talks with India until New Delhi agrees to discuss the Kashmir dispute as a first priority though it is a "complicated issue".

"I want to reiterate that there is a change in the policy …If there is a dialogue with India, it will be on Kashmir and if India wants to talk on Kashmir issue, dialogue can be resumed," the Army ruler told reporters. "Earlier we used to say that we will negotiate all issues including Kashmir. But now we will discuss the Kashmir issue first," Gen Musharraf, who offered unconditional talks with India as soon as he took over power on October 12, said.

Meanwhile, Pakistan on Monday dismissed India’s allegations that four Pakistani nationals were among the hijackers of the Indian Airlines Flight IC 814 which is currently stranded in southern Afghanistan from Saturday morning. A foreign office spokesman said theIndian media never mentioned the presence of any Pakistani national on board the plane since it was hijacked on Friday. "They seem to have suddenly discovered Pakistanis on board," he said.