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Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Tuesday dismissed Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's talk of a "split" in the Indian polity on Kashmir, saying it was "fully united" and asked Islamabad not to have any "illusion" that New Delhi would "give away" Kashmir.
A day after Musharraf said the Indian polity was "split" between hardliners and softliners on the Kashmir issue, Vajpayee told the Rajya Sabha: "The country is fully united on Kashmir. It will never accept another partition."
Talking in a debate on the international situation arising out of the September 11 terrorist strikes and the US action in Afghanistan, he asserted that if Pakistan was under the "illusion" that Indo-Pak relations would improve only if India would give away Kashmir, then "this condition will never be fulfilled".
The prime minister said he had told former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who met him on Sunday, that India would never accept another partition.
Referring to his last week's statement on the possibility of meeting Musharraf in Kathmandu, he said in response to a reporter's question he had said that an informal meeting could take place.
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