Sunday, December 20, 2009

Pak assures seriousness in 26/11 probe; asks India to talk

Rajeev Ranjan Dwivedi
New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI) Terming as "unfortunate" the stalled Indo-Pak talks, Pakistan has advocated delinking of resumption of composite dialogue from the 26/11 probe, saying it was "seriously" pursuing all the leads provided by India.
"Both Pakistan and India are today at a stage unfortunately where there is no dialogue between them....If we are seated across the table and agree to disagree, even that is an improvement over the current state of affairs," Pakistan High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik said at a book release function here yesterday.
Maintaining that Pakistan had made "repeated requests" to India to start the dialogue process and was still waiting for a positive response, he said,
"I was present in Sharm-el- Sheikh (Egypt) in July, where it was agreed in a statement- where the two Prime Ministers were also present- that dialogue is the only way forward.

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