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Pak Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said India needs to look at the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks 'unemotionally.' "As far as 26/11 is concerned, we must be able to look at it unemotionally. We would want this issue to be resolved as soon as possible," Khar told newsmen. She emphasized that the two Asian neighbours must now look forward to their relationship rather than contemplating about their past. "Anything that happened before today is the past, anything that happens from today is going to be the future. Do we want what happened in the past to define what is going to happen tomorrow? The past year has not been a bad year in terms of the messages that have been sent by both countries," said Khar. "The fact that Mr. Krishna (Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna) attended dinner, which was given by the Permanent Representative in New York where Pakistan was vying for a non-permanent seat in the (U.N.) Security Council; that may be meaningless to many people, but it sent a very important gesture. How we move forward is more important to me than what happened in the past," she added. Citing the 1971 war to justify her statement, Khar said: "As 1971 cannot be unemotional for Pakistan. But do we want to remain emotional in judging what our intentions are today. Please do a realistic analysis of what Pakistan can and has done. These are judicial processes, which have to be worked. We understand that a judicial process has to take its time and has to go through the process." "We are committed to doing whatever we can do. Let me please encourage you not to doubt our intention to put this matter to rest to the satisfaction of the Indians and to the satisfaction of the Pakistanis," she added.

India needs to look at Mumbai terror attacks unemotionally: Khar