Musharraf says he is "confused"

Suggesting that India is sending out contradictory signals on resolving the Kashmir issue, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said this had left him "confused."

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"On one side I am hopeful, while on the other Indians are giving negative signals. I am confused," he said in a wide-ranging interview to english daily The News.

In talks, he said, Indians looked serious in solving the Kashmir problem, but in public "they do not speak with the same mind."

The president said that he had told this to External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh when he called on him recently.

"Then I have my doubts they are playing tricks. I think they are moulding their public opinion gradually. There is a new government in India, and one should give it a chance," he said.

Describing Kashmir as a "flashpoint", he said the people in India are for peace and once the issue is resolved "rest will fall in line."

Musharraf said he would be meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in September. "There are some feelers from there [India] and I would meet him, certainly," he said.

The two leaders are expected to be in New York to attend the UN General Assembly.