ISLAMABAD, May 10: There is no roadmap on Kashmir so far, the foreign office spokesman told his weekly news briefing here on Monday. What has evolved so far in meetings between the two foreign secretaries and their respective officials since March , the spokesman, Masood Khan, said was a calendar of meetings between foreign secretaries and their officials culminating in a meeting between the foreign ministers in August.

When the foreign secretaries and the foreign ministers meet, they would start the quest for a roadmap on Kashmir for peace and for the resolution of the issue, the spokesman said. There is "a broad map of activities" between the foreign secretaries and officials since March, "but on Kashmir we have no roadmap" yet.

In reply to a question, the spokesman said that Indian prime minister's recent statement to the media (during his election campaign) had both positive and negative elements; one of the positive elements was that he expressed the hope that the ongoing talks between officials of the two countries as a follow-up of the January Islamabad joint statement by Prime Minister Vajpayee and President Pervez Musharraf would lead to a summit-level conference to find settlement of their bilateral disputes and issues, including Jammu and Kashmir.

The spokesman, however, rejected Indian prime minister's statement that Pakistan had interfered in the Indian elections process in Jammu and Kashmir and asserted that the Kashmir people's boycott of the polls was voluntary and a continuation of what had been happening in the past. The boycott was not because of 'terror' created by outside elements, he affirmed.

He said Pakistan cautiously avoided any hostile statement on the nature of the illegitimate elections IHK in order to avoid vitiating the present atmosphere created as a result of the 'momentous decisions' taken by Mr Vajpayee and President Musharraf in January this year on resolving the differences which divided them.

Asked whether Pakistan anticipated a hung parliament in India after the current elections, Mr Masood Khan declined to speculate saying the polls were ending now and the results would be known soon.

However, he expressed the hope that the present upbeat relations between the two countries about efforts for resolving their differences and disputes and to take forward the bilateral peace process would not take a dip, would maintain an upward curve and the momentum of the peace process would not be disturbed.

Answering a question about the dispute over non-registration by foreign elements hiding in tribal areas, the spokesman categorically stated that the government would not compromise on the demand for registration because no country anywhere condoned unregistered foreigners. The unregistered foreigners would have to vacate Pakistani territory, he observed.

He asserted that Pakistan and India were undeniably nuclear armed states regardless of a US official's assertion to the contrary. He pointed out that the world community recognized the fact and had been urging both the South Asian countries to follow up their confidence-building measures so that the region did not have a chaotic state because of their nuclear armed capability.

In reply to a question, he said Pakistan had been insisting that the occupation forces should leave Iraq as soon as possible so that the Iraqi people regained their sovereignty and peace and stability was restored. He emphasized that the Mideast peace process should be restored.