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Foreign Minister Qureshi says India has failed to respond to Pak overtures for talks | Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday said that India has so far failed to respond to Islamabad's overtures on restarting the stalled composite dialogue process as also evidence with regard to the probe into the 26/11 terror attacks
on Mumbai, which claimed 166 innocent lives. Speaking in an interview to CNN-IBN,
Qureshi said re-emphasised that Islamabad is very keen for New Delhi to respond
and engage in a meaningful and constructive manner. "I have always welcomed a
meeting.but it has to be a meaningful meeting.it has to be a dialogue which is
result oriented..We have had engagements we met on sidelines in New York..I shared
with S M Krishna (Indian External Affairs Minister) a vision of the future," Qureshi
said "My roadmap of engagement for the future..they have to respond, the have
failed to respond so far..Pak is interested in an engagement which is meaningful,
result oriented..we are no longer interested in a photo opportunity," he added.
Commenting on the Indian Government's repeated charge that Pakistan has failed
to bring those behind Mumbai attacks to justice, Qureshi told CNN-IBN: "On the
contrary, I think Pakistan has made reasonalble progress on the investigation..the
trial has begun..they (accused) have been chargesheeted, they are under trial
and we feel that we have collected sufficient evidence against them to argue a
good case for their conviction. As far as Hafiz Saeed is considered, honestly
the evidence provided is inadequate. We won't want to prosecute him, but if the
case can't stand in court, we can't move forward on the matter." Responding to
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent statement in Kashmir that if Pakistan abjures
terror, he was ready to meet Pakistan more than half way on talks, Foreign Minister
Qureshi said: "I think we have to get out of the old mindset.We have to realise
that there is a great opportunity coming our way ..if you want to limit the dialogue
that will not be acceptable to Pakistan." "Let us sit and talk, and talk as neighbours
who have to co-exist, we have to help each other.The challenge..is too large.
I think you (India) are being myopic ..you are being narrow minded..you have to
look at the boader picture, and the broader picture demands co-operation and not
confrontation," he concluded. |
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