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By Amit Baruah
The Prime Minister was apparently upset at a question posed by the editor of an RSS weekly when India would achieve the scale of development of China and match its per capita income. Maintaining that the reply to the question required "deep self-introspection", Mr. Vajpayee said in Hindi: "Main samajhta hoon ki ek suprasidh saptahik ke liye yeh upyukt hoga. (I think this self-introspection will be appropriate for this well-known weekly)." The Prime Minister, however, made it clear that in some respects India had done better than China. And, to address some persisting weaknesses, Mr. Vajpayee said if "we", a reference to the BJP and the NDA, "get five years more, then these issues could be dealt with". Asked whether this seeking another five years was the final word on his "retirement" controversy, Mr. Vajpayee said: "Let's not mix the two things." Another correspondent citing the high-rise buildings and expressways in Shanghai asked the Prime Minister if this model could be replicated in India. "Why not something better than China," the latter asked.
Will study Musharraf's proposal: Vajpayee
The Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, today declined to comment on the four-point proposal of the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, to resolve Indo-Pakistan issues, saying he was yet to study it. ``I do not know what General Saheb has stated. And till I study it, I would not like to comment as he (Gen. Musharraf) has (earlier) issued statements that whatever he has stated has been presented wrongly,'' Mr. Vajpayee told reporters at the airport here on returning from a six-day visit to China. On the reported American view that Gen. Musharraf was making all efforts to stop cross-border terrorism, the Prime Minister only said the U.S. policy on it (cross-border terrorism) had been clear. ``India respects it'' and that should be given consideration, Mr. Vajpayee said, without going into details. Replying to questions, he said that while Gen. Musharraf had claimed that nothing was happening on the Line of Control (LoC), he had also stated that he could not give a guarantee that not a single bird flew across the border. Mr. Vajpayee declined to answer questions on the VHP's criticism of the Government on various political issues. — PTI
Four-stage approach
PTI reports from Washington: Gen. Musharraf, has outlined a four-stage approach to resolve the Kashmir issue, saying any search for an immediate solution to the problem would be rejected by extremists in both India and Pakistan. After a meeting with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at Capitol Hill where he talked about the Kashmir problem and the situation in Afghanistan and Iraq, Gen. Musharraf on Thursday told reporters, ``we have adopted a step-by-step approach.'' ``First the two sides (Pakistan and India) have to start talking to each other (to) hold a dialogue; stage two — accepting the centrality of the Kashmir dispute to be resolved for better relations between India and Pakistan; stage three — being the elimination of whatever is unacceptable to Pakistan, India and the people of Kashmir and stage four — trying to hit the solution that is win-win for Pakistan, India and the people of Kashmir,'' he said. — PTI
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