The former Pakistan President was speaking at the packed grand finale of the India Today Conclave. He exhorted India to "tear down the Line of Control"."This is another Berlin Wall," Musharraf said of the 700-km-long LoC which divides the two countries in J&K, "it needs to be torn down."
"Kashmir remains the key dispute," the general emphasised, stating how the struggle had created several freelance mujahideen groups within Pakistan because there was public sympathy within that country for Kashmiris.
India and Pakistan had "done enough damage to each other", he said–they had fought three wars, a number of "mini-wars" and had a cold war throughout. "Unless boldness is there, sincerity or meaningfulness is not possible. Solutions are possible if our ‘neeyat’ (intention) is correct," he emphasised, refusing to translate the operative word because the translation did not convey it came from the heart.