MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 26: AJK President Sardar Mohammad Anwar Khan on Friday categorically ruled out any U-turn on the Kashmir issue and political, moral and said that diplomatic support would continue uninterrupted to the freedom-seeking people of occupied Kashmir.

He was responding to questions by journalists from India and occupied Kashmir at a dinner he hosted at the President House here. The journalists are here on a three-day visit, sponsored by South Asia Free Media Association.

"If this issue is not resolved in accordance with the wishes of the Kashmiris, then the struggle would go on to the next generation and to the next generation," warned the president.

He said Gen Pervez Musharraf had provided an opportunity to India to amicably settle the Kashmir issue and that opportunity might "not be there tomorrow". "Today the Indian public is also ready for the settlement of the issue. New Delhi should seize this opportunity," he said.

Describing President Musharraf as an exception, he said no one in the sub-continent had said such substantial things or taken such initiatives so far. "But when India says it won't redraw the borders or take any other substantial step, it's simply a rigid approach on its part."

The AJK president said he knew the visiting newsmen were not the decision makers, but they were the opinion makers and could mould the opinion of their public and government towards agreeing to a peaceful and acceptable to all solution to the long running Kashmir problem at the earliest.

He pointed out that the people of Jammu and Kashmir formed one percent of the population of Sub-Continent, but that one percent could not brushed aside to move forward towards peace, prosperity and progress.

Referring to what he called "euphoria" over the exchange of delegations between India and Pakistan, he said these could be steps but not solution which lied somewhere else.

"Many people ... would be willing the bus to move between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad and it must move, but not the way India wants," he said. The bus issue, he said, was not a serious thing but just one of the confidence-building measures and a process towards final settlement.

He also took a strong exception to repeated calls from India to forget the past. "If you kill someone's brother, you have either to endure litigation or compensate the victim's family or seek forgiveness. But when you don't change your attitude and say others should forget the murder, it cannot happen," he said.

Kashmiris, he said, had so far not seen any change in India's attitude. He said 90,000 lives lost was not a small figure to be simply forgotten. He appreciated first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as a statesman and said he knew Kashmir's accession to India was not legitimate which was why he had described it provisional and committed before the world community to refer back to the people of the Jammu and Kashmir.

He said internal autonomy was not a solution otherwise it would have worked in the past. "We should beyond the tried solutions," he said. He disagreed with a questioner that the armed struggle was being sponsored from Azad Kashmir, and said it was purely an indigenous movement.

"No movement could be run from the outside. This is a political story fabricated after 9/11 to hoodwink the West." He said erection of fence along the LoC was an unfortunate thing but that could not divide the Kashmiris.

He also disagreed with a questioner who asked if he had violated the constitution to become AJK president and that the situation in Kashmir was because of Pakistan army's vested interests.