Islamabad - The Pakistani military ruler, Gen Pervez Musharraf, said yesterday that he wanted to settle all of his country's disputes with India, but warned New Delhi that "hostility will be met with hostility".
Gen Musharraf told his first news conference since the October 12th army coup that toppled the prime minister, Mr Nawaz Sharif, that there would be no change from the foreign policy pursued by the ousted government and declared: "We want peaceful coexistence with all."
But he said that while seeking co-existence with India, his administration would not allow a sidelining of the IndoPakistan dispute over the Himalayan region of Kashmir, where India and Pakistan came to the brink of their fourth war last summer.