Pakistan wants result oriented dialogue with India
ISLAMABAD (APP)
Pakistan Wednesday reiterated that it wanted sustainable and result oriented dialogue pro
cess with India leading to peaceful settlement of all outstanding issues, especially Jammu and Kashmir. Responding to questions at the weekly briefing this afternoon, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said, “Pakistan wants resumption of dialogue as quickly as possible as this is necessary to resolve issues facing the two countries and the region.”
About reports that the United States has asked India to resume dialogue with Pakistan, the spokesman said any help for resumption of dialogue is encouraging.
He told a questioner that both President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh would be attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
summit in Russia but there is no meeting planned between the two leaders.
To a question he said Mumbai attacks were reprehensible and Pakistan is sparing no efforts to bring perpetrators of the crime to book.
He said Pakistan wished that instead of providing piecemeal information India should have provided all information in one go.
The spokesman said even the latest information received on 20th of last month is in languages other than Urdu and English.
Pakistan has received a part of the document in English and translation of the remaining part is still awaited.
Replying to another question the spokesman said out of 543 million dollars pledged in response to the UN appeal, the world body has so far received about 24 percent of the amount which has been spent on relief activities for IDPs of Swat.
He said both the UN and Pakistan are in touch with the donor community to impress upon
them to release the pledged amount without any delay so that there is no disruption in relief activities.
The spokesman said on the sidelines of the SCO summit President Asif Ali Zardari will have bilateral meetings with his Russian counterpart and other leaders. There will also be a trilateral meeting of the Presidents of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Russia to take stock of the regional situation.
To a question he said one of the students who were earlier detained in UK has returned home on his own accord and Pakistan is providing legal assistance to others who wanted to stay there and pursue their studies.
Replying to another question he hoped that now that the composition of the Commission assigned to probe assassination of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto has been completed it would visit Pakistan soon.
cess with India leading to peaceful settlement of all outstanding issues, especially Jammu and Kashmir. Responding to questions at the weekly briefing this afternoon, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said, “Pakistan wants resumption of dialogue as quickly as possible as this is necessary to resolve issues facing the two countries and the region.”About reports that the United States has asked India to resume dialogue with Pakistan, the spokesman said any help for resumption of dialogue is encouraging.
He told a questioner that both President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh would be attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
summit in Russia but there is no meeting planned between the two leaders.To a question he said Mumbai attacks were reprehensible and Pakistan is sparing no efforts to bring perpetrators of the crime to book.
He said Pakistan wished that instead of providing piecemeal information India should have provided all information in one go.
The spokesman said even the latest information received on 20th of last month is in languages other than Urdu and English.
Pakistan has received a part of the document in English and translation of the remaining part is still awaited.
Replying to another question the spokesman said out of 543 million dollars pledged in response to the UN appeal, the world body has so far received about 24 percent of the amount which has been spent on relief activities for IDPs of Swat.
He said both the UN and Pakistan are in touch with the donor community to impress upon
them to release the pledged amount without any delay so that there is no disruption in relief activities.The spokesman said on the sidelines of the SCO summit President Asif Ali Zardari will have bilateral meetings with his Russian counterpart and other leaders. There will also be a trilateral meeting of the Presidents of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Russia to take stock of the regional situation.
To a question he said one of the students who were earlier detained in UK has returned home on his own accord and Pakistan is providing legal assistance to others who wanted to stay there and pursue their studies.
Replying to another question he hoped that now that the composition of the Commission assigned to probe assassination of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto has been completed it would visit Pakistan soon.
