What will be the outcome: Pak before Qureshi`s visit

Islamabad, Dec 9 (PTI) Pakistan on Thursday came up with
a strange demand - it wants to know the "outcome" of the visit
to India by Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi
expected early next year even before he undertakes it.
"I cannot give you any date as to when our Foreign
Minister would visit New Delhi. It is contingent upon the
agenda of the meeting as well as how our two countries agree
as to what will be the outcome of that meeting," Foreign
Office spokesman Abdul Basit told a weekly news briefing.
He was responding to questions about Qureshi's proposed
visit to India.
"The Indian External Affairs Minister, during his visit
to Pakistan in July, has invited our Foreign Minister to visit
India. So we hope that by early next year, there would be
some agreement in the context of the agenda as well as the
outcome of that meeting," he said.
Earlier reports had suggested that Qureshi would travel
to New Delhi in November or December in response to External
Affairs Minister S M Krishna's invitation.
"We hope that India would respond to Pakistan's
suggestions which were discussed prior to and during the July
15 meeting in Islamabad," Basit said, referring to parleys
between the two Foreign Ministers.
He said no dates had been fixed for Qureshi's visit.
"As of today, there is no progress on this count," he said.
The talks between Qureshi and Krishna in July had ended
without any breakthrough after the Pakistani side insisted on
a timeframe for taking up issues like the Kashmir problem and
military standoff on the Siachen glacier.
A report in The Express Tribune newspaper on Thursday
quoted an unnamed Pakistani diplomat as saying that the two
countries were "working quietly" to iron out differences on
issues that have prevented the resumption of the peace process
which was stalled in the wake of the 2008 Mumbai terror
attacks.
The diplomat told the newspaper that Pakistan wants a
clear roadmap for the composite dialogue while India links the
peace process to progress in the prosecution of Pakistani
suspects linked to the Mumbai attacks.
India suspended the composite dialogue in the wake of the
Mumbai attacks, which it blamed on the Pakistan-based
Lashker-e-Taiba terror group.