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Pak, India relations
"We are not worried...We can sit and put across our views
and we are ready to listen to their viewpoint," Qureshi said
in response to a question about the current status of
relations between the two countries.
Qureshi said Pakistan has not yet received a response to
its invitation to Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao to visit
Islamabad for talks with her Pakistani counterpart Salman
Bashir. "We have not yet received a reply. We have extended
the invitation and we are expecting a reply (from India)."
"In light of that reply, we will prepare the agenda and
modalities of engagement. The two Foreign Secretaries will
then report to the two Foreign Ministers and in light of that
report, there will be an engagement between us in New York (on
the sidelines of the UN General Assembly)," Qureshi said.
Replying to another question, he ruled out the
possibility of Pakistan acting on advice from Western
countries to shift troops from the Indian border to focus on
the campaign against militancy along the Afghan frontier.
"This is our internal decision. We have our own
priorities. Our military leadership understands better what
should be our strategy and where, when and how much we should
focus on things. We do not need advice from outside on this
issue," he said.
On New Delhi's call for Islamabad to take action against
Saeed, Qureshi said that there was no deadlock between India
and Pakistan on the issue. "No, I will not call it a deadlock.
If they are interested in Hafiz Saeed, we have already told
them that if they have legally tenable evidence, then it
should be shared with us," he said. (More) PTI
and we are ready to listen to their viewpoint," Qureshi said
in response to a question about the current status of
relations between the two countries.
Qureshi said Pakistan has not yet received a response to
its invitation to Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao to visit
Islamabad for talks with her Pakistani counterpart Salman
Bashir. "We have not yet received a reply. We have extended
the invitation and we are expecting a reply (from India)."
"In light of that reply, we will prepare the agenda and
modalities of engagement. The two Foreign Secretaries will
then report to the two Foreign Ministers and in light of that
report, there will be an engagement between us in New York (on
the sidelines of the UN General Assembly)," Qureshi said.
Replying to another question, he ruled out the
possibility of Pakistan acting on advice from Western
countries to shift troops from the Indian border to focus on
the campaign against militancy along the Afghan frontier.
"This is our internal decision. We have our own
priorities. Our military leadership understands better what
should be our strategy and where, when and how much we should
focus on things. We do not need advice from outside on this
issue," he said.
On New Delhi's call for Islamabad to take action against
Saeed, Qureshi said that there was no deadlock between India
and Pakistan on the issue. "No, I will not call it a deadlock.
If they are interested in Hafiz Saeed, we have already told
them that if they have legally tenable evidence, then it
should be shared with us," he said. (More) PTI