KARACHI, AUGUST 12: Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee may meet at the United Nations in New York next month, a Pakistani minister said today.``When the two leaders are present in the gathering nothing can be ruled out,'' Information Minister Javed Jabbar said. ``Though nothing has so far been discussed and agreed upon, they may decide to meet separately,'' he told AFP.Jabbar said Musharraf would brief the world leaders and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan about the situation in South Asia and the necessity of finding a peaceful solution to the Kashmir issue.Meanwhile, in Islamabad, militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen's chief Syed Salahudin has urged Pakistan to send troops into the Kashmir Valley even if it means a war. ``Pakistan should physically involve itself in Kashmir. We want war because war will solve the issue,'' Salahudin told AP.At his headquarters in a posh neighbourhood of Islamabad, Salahudin sharply criticised India for last week's collapse of the ceasefire offer issued by his group on July 24.From the outset, Salahudin said, the ceasefire hinged on a ``meaningful dialogue''. For Salahudin and his group, ``meaningful'' means peace talks that included Pakistan, India and the Kashmiri leadership. For India, it means bilateral talks with the Kashmiris which New Delhi quickly agreed to.``But bilateral talks have not worked in the past. We have a history of talks between the Indians and the Kashmiris and between Pakistan and India and they have failed,'' he said.He accused India of sending mixed signals, vacillating between talks within the framework of the Constitution and statements that the Kashmir dispute was an internal problem of India.He said Hizbul, which took responsibility for last Thursday's car bombing that killed 12 people, will step up attacks against Indian soldiers until New Delhi agreed to tripartite talks.
