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Qureshi said he would be seeking guidance from
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf
Raza Gilani on the substantive issues.
He said the approach of Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh
and Gilani was "very productive" and their interaction in
Thimphu was "frank, cordial and forward looking".
"We will discuss all issues of concern to India and
Pakistan. There was no discussion on structure. I am presuming
both sides are comfortable. Structure is in place," Qureshi
said.
"We will have to sit and resolve. We will not allow
acts of terrorism to impede the process. We will have to build
on it to a level that it (dialogue process) becomes
irreversible," he said.
He said there was no bar on bringing to the table
issues o mutual concern like the water dispute.
Qureshi said he had seen the Indian Minister's
statement in Rajya Sabha last week which he considered
"positive and forward looking".
Ahead of Krishna's visit, Home Minister P Chidambaram
is slated to visit Islamabad on June 26 to attend a meeting of
Home Ministers from South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC) countries.
The composite dialogue process covering Kashmir and
other outstanding issues was stalled in the wake of the 26/11
attacks in Mumbai.
The Singh-Gilani meeting on the sidelines of SAARC
Summit in Thimphu was the first substantive dialogue between
the two countries since they met in Sharm-el-Shaikh in Egypt
in July last year.
Bringing in thaw in bilateral relations, Singh and
Gilani in Thimphu had agreed to resume dialogue at the level
of Foreign Ministers soon that could lead to parleys on all
outstanding issues like terrorism, Kashmir and Siachen.
The two leaders had entrusted the Foreign Ministers
and Foreign Secretaries with the responsibility of restoring
confidence and trust in the relations that could pave the way
for substantive dialogue on outstanding issues of mutual
concern.
Singh had then conveyed India's deep and continuing
concern over the fact that 26/11 mastermind and Jamaat-ud-Dawa
chief Hafiz Saeed was being allowed to roam freely and engage
in language and communications that are certainly not
conducive to the atmosphere of peace and stability.
Gilani had assured Singh that his government was
making all efforts to bring to justice the perpetrators of the
Mumbai attacks and not to allow Pakistani soil to be used for
terrorism against India. PTI SKU
MRD


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