145;India146;s reaction is disappointing146;

About the Pakistan President8217;s remarks on the demilitarisation of Kashmir, he said that India should either have its own ideas or at least be receptive to other possible solutions.

8216;8216;It is necessary to take the peace process forward. It is very easy to derail it. If the government has some proposals, then they should spell them out.8217;8217;

According to him, New Delhi8217;s talks on both fronts8212;with Islamabad and with the Hurriyat8212; needed to pick up pace. 8216;8216;In Pakistan, we met the President, the Prime Minister and also had talks with the All-Party Kashmir Parliamentary Committee, and they all agreed that the focus has to be on taking the process forward8212;towards a settlement,8217;8217; the Mirwaiz said.

He said, 8216;8216;Musharraf had assured us of a complete withdrawal of troops from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir PoK, if India agreed to withdraw troops from Jammu and Kashmir. In fact, he Musharraf offered joint action to combat terrorism.8217;8217;

The peace process, he said, had entered a phase where we have to evolve new ideas since a solution cannot be found in stated positions.

The Hurriyat leader said that they also discussed the self-governance issue with the Pakistani leadership. 8216;8216;The issue of self-rule is at an embryonic stage and talks need to be held at all levels before taking a final decision.8217;8217;

On their talks with the Centre, he said that the Centre had not done much to boost the process. 8216;8216;The Hurriyat expected a better response in terms of the redressal of human rights problems and custodial killings in the state. In a meeting held in September last, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had assured us of sorting out the issues, but not much has been done on ground. The Centre needs to fulfil its commitments on ending custodial killings, on showing more respect to human rights and releasing political detainees.8217;8217;

SC wants status report on Kargil investigation

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today granted four weeks to the Centre to spell out the status of the probe into the 25 defence deals relating to the Kargil conflict, which had been referred to the CBI. The deals8212;including the casket purchase scam8212;had allegedly caused a loss of Rs 2,000 crore to the national exchequer. After Attorney General Milon Banerji said that the agency had gone into the 25 deals, a bench comprising Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal, Justice C K Thakker and Justice R V Raveendran directed the Centre to file an affidavit and status report on the issue. 8212;PTI