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The Pakistan President as saying the U.S.-led military attacks on Afghanistan should be stopped as soon as possible because the whole world saw them as a war against innocent civilians. He said he would ask the U.S. President, Mr. George W. Bush, to suspend the bombing during Ramadan, which would start in mid-November. Continuing the campaign during Ramadan would cause trouble throughout the Muslim world.) Gen. Musharraf also said that he was ``concerned about maintaining a degree of balances of forces with India on the conventional plane. Pakistan followed a strategy of deterrence and a strategy of conventional deterrence has to be in place and to that extent we are getting involved in the procurement of weapons from the West.''