KARACHI, April 5: The AJK People's Party leader, Sahibzada Ishaq Zafar, said on Monday that Kashmiris would not allow any individual to impose a settlement of their problem which deviated from the UN resolutions and did not include them in the process of negotiations right from the beginning.

Mr Zafar, who is a member of the PPP central executive committee and a former Speaker of the AJK legislative assembly, said this in a news conference in an apparent reference to Gen Pervez Musharraf's remarks in which he had talked about the possibility of setting aside the UN resolution for arriving a negotiated settlement of the Kashmir problem with India.

"We will not accept any such solution. We reject any attempt to further divide our territory and impose on us the Andora solution, that will provide a staging post to the US against China," said the Kashmiri leader from Chakothi area along the Line of Control.

Mr Ishaq Zafar demanded that legitimate leadership of all the Kashmiris must be taken into confidence before India and Pakistan commence substantive negotiations on the core issue.

Mr Zafar, who was accompanied by some other members of the AJK legislative assembly and secretary-general Sindh PPP Rashid Rabbani, said at a time when India and Pakistan were striving for a solution between themselves, Kashmiris would like to make it clear that their territory was indivisible and UN resolutions promising self-determination through a plebiscite were valid.

To a question, he said that because of the struggle of the Indian-held Kashmir, the two countries have been compelled to search for a negotiated solution. Mr Ishaq Zafar said that because of this unresolved core issue, both India and Pakistan had fought three wars and were very close to another.

Mr Zafar was supportive of Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service for facilitating contact between Kashmiris from either side of the divide but was opposed to allowing this facility on either country's passport and visa as the LoC was not a permanent border between the two countries and any attempt to turn the LoC into a permanent border would be opposed. There should be a permit system to check travel through this service, he said.

He said that after fencing the LoC the Indians would launch a massive crackdown on the Kashmiri Muslims. He claimed that fencing was not meant to check the so-called intrusions from this side, but was aimed at blocking the escape route of the Kashmiris in the IHK from the feared massacre.

He appreciated the unqualified support of all political forces and governments to the Kashmiris in their just struggle and for raising this issue at all forums, be that in Tashkent, Simla, Lahore Declaration or at Agra.

"We are proud that despite difficulties faced by the successive governments in Pakistan due to Kashmir problem, they have always supported our struggle and I am sure that neither the people of Kashmir, nor more than 140 million people of Pakistan will allow an individual to undermine their cause," said Mr Zafar.

He said at no stage the Kashmiris would renounce these UN resolutions and any attempt to impose a solution by deviating from them, would tantamount to insult of the sacrifices Kashmiri people had made over more than half a century.

"Those who will deviate from it, will have to account for the 56 billion rupees spent on military build up on the pretext of Kashmir problem," he said. Mr Zafar said Pakistan cannot afford to ignore the reality that sources of its water resources were located in Kashmir.

"Can Pakistan give up its claim on these waters, especially when in the coming decade there will be shortage of water amid fear of riparian war," he asked, emphasising that "no one should expect the Kashmiris to forget the rape of over 25,000 Kashmiri women and killing of tens of thousands over the past 12 years."