Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday said India and Pakistan would have to show flexibility to find a solution to the Jammu and Kashmir dispute. "A solution acceptable to both Islamabad and New Delhi as well as the Kashmiri people will be in the interest of peace and development of the region," he told members of the newly-elected legislative council of Pakistan's northern areas in Islamabad. An official statement issued quoted Musharraf as saying that he had not spelt out any solution to the Kashmir issue but only asked Pakistani media to identify various options and initiate meaningful debate on them. Early this week, Musharraf proposed a gradual demilitarization of the Himalayan state to resolve the decades-old dispute that has already caused two of three wars since Pakistan and India gained independence from British colonial rule in 1947.
