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To: HG who wrote (381)	10/31/2001 12:48:21 PM
From: HG	Respond to of 1595

Ooooh..... Mr BlowHotBlowCold You better get some lessons on etiquette on how to tow the American line....and how to eat your words over and over again....and how to be more graceful when you're being slapped on the wrist by the world community....and of course how to dodge a bullet from one of our ISI friends or the majority public...LOL Calling back the terrorists from Kashmir....now wouldn't that be something after you were made to turn your back on Taliban ? <evil grin> You're so damn pathetic.....!!! In some contorted ways, I prefer the courage of the Taliban.... --- Musharraf won't beg Vajpayee to meet him Reuters Islamabad, October 31 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pakistani military ruler General Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday dismissed India's refusal to hold a meeting in New York, saying he would not beg to see Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. "I am not disappointed," said Musharraf, who held a summit meeting with Vajpayee in July that broke down over the 54-year-old struggle for control of the Himalayan region of Kashmir. "I am willing, I have always been willing and I have been saying that I would like to meet the Prime Minister," Musharraf said in an interview with Reuters Television. "But I am not prepared to beg him to meet me. If he doesn't want to meet me, I am the last person willing to meet him." The two leaders will be attending the UN General Assembly in New York this month. But relations between the countries have grown sharply more strained since the September 11 attacks on the United States caused Washington to resurrect a relationship with Pakistan that had been withering since the 1980s. PAKISTAN VITAL FOR AFGHAN WAR Washington has said it will turn later to other disputes labelled terrorism, but is anxious for India not to make Kashmir a distraction from the U.S. focus on the war in Afghanistan. After September 11 Pakistan was vital to the United States for waging a war against the Taliban rulers of neighbouring Afghanistan who are sheltering Osama bin Laden -- prime suspect in the attacks on Washington and New York. Until then Washington had appeared to be moving closer to India while shunning Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 bloodless coup. "There is no competition that we should get involved in," said Musharraf. "Unfortunately India sees everything from this point of view. "Whatever they do their concern is only one unfortunately -- and that is Pakistan, how to harm Pakistan, how should we do something which has a negative fallout on Pakistan." Musharraf has called this month for a resumption of the dialogue began in July at the summit in the Indian city of Agra, when the two sides could not even agree on how to describe their dispute over Kashmir. However, India has ruled out any further talks until Pakistan halts what New Delhi alleges are increasing levels of infiltration over the frontier in advance of winter when the passes will be closed. But Musharraf, who is head of the armed forces and was deeply involved in a border conflict in 1999 that threatened to trigger the two countries' fourth war, said India felt slighted by the U.S. attention on Pakistan. "They have their role, how can India be ignored? It's a very large country. They should have that confidence in themselves," he said. "I think they are showing a degree of lack of confidence in themselves."