I don’t want to complicate matters for Musharraf: PM

By IANS

New Delhi : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said he was interested in visiting Pakiatan but also maintained that he did not want to "complicate" matters for President Pervez Musharraf.


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"I have an invitation and I would certainly like to visit Pakistan, but at the moment, President Musharraf has problems at home," the prime minister said while speaking to journalists on board his special aircraft Air India One while returning from Germany.

"I don't want to complicate his problems. I do wish to go to Pakistan. I have an invitation, which I have accepted," he said,

The prime minister, who visited Berlin and Heiligendamm for the G8 Outreach Summit, referred to Germany's unification and said nobody could have imagined that 20 years ago.

"What was unthinkable in international relations became a norm. So that is good hope. Even when you are dealing very difficult issues, we should not lose hope," Manmohan Singh said, hoping the same would apply to the Indian subcontinent.

"India and Pakistan – our destinies are interlinked and therefore it is our ambition, it is our prayer, that we must both find pathways to live together and resolve all our bilateral issues."

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