Self-governance is what people of Kashmir need, said Pakistan President Parvez Musharraf in an interview in Pakistan to the Indian-based television news channel CNN IBN, which telecast here Tuesday.

This was the second part of the interview and the first part was telecast here Monday.

Speaking to CNN IBN journalist Karan Thapar, the Pakistan president said that both India and Pakistan claim Kashmir to be theirs, and his idea of self-governance for Kashmir falls between autonomy and independence. "Now, the exact details and intricacies of it need to be worked out," he added.

However, he maintained that India, Pakistan and Kashmiris would have to work out modalities towards self governance.

Musharraf said he was open to involving experts to work out the modalities. He was also open to the ideas of involving experts from countries other than India and Pakistan, he said.

The President said he, however, had one problem with self governance. That is security. "Because the problem is of militancy on both sides. Indians accuse us for the terrorism going on or the freedom struggle going on. Pakistan accuses the Indian Army of committing atrocities. All these have to stop," he said.

Demilitarisation was the solution to this problem. "And then, if we have to demilitarise, let us hand over security to the people. That is the main aspect," he said.

But when asked how demilitarization could happen when terror did no end, the President said, he had no key that he could switch off and end terror. "There are a lot of groups operating. There is an indigenous factor operating there and there should be no doubt in any Indian minds there are indigenous factors there." He, however, maintained that he would curb any militancy.

However, he said that self-governance was not the final solution. Joint management would be a solution, which "we need to go into."

He said that, in joint management, they would need to have a system, which includes the Kashmiris, the Pakistanis and the Indians to monitor the self-governance.

He noted, "We are not talking about giving independence to Kashmir. That is not acceptable to either India or Pakistan. We don't accept autonomy as the final solution within the Indian constitution."

"The LoC is the issue. On the Indian side, it is said that boundaries cannot be redone. We will not accept the LoC as final," he said.

The President said he had floated his suggestions to India but had received no suggestion.

Source: Xinhua