ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari has said the government is committed to better relations between Pakistan and India and he hopes that search by the two countries for peaceful resolution to all disputes through sustained and productive dialogue will bear fruit.
In a message on the occasion of a SAFMA seminar on Monday (today), he said, “I wish to felicitate SAFMA and its Secretary General Imtiaz Alam for organising seminars simultaneously in Lahore and Amritsar on “In Pursuit of Shared Destiny in the Sub-Continent” on the eve of Independence Day.
The president said SAFMA had been making systematic and concerted efforts for promoting peace and cooperation in the subcontinent.
“Apart from the seminar, it has also organised exchange of delegations and candle vigil on both sides of Wagah/Attari border on the eve of Independence Day to share the happiness of freedom on the one hand and to pay homage to all those who sacrificed their lives for the cause of freedom on the other,” he added.
He said SAFMA deserved to be commended by all those who wished to promote peace and cooperation in the region.
The present democratic government and the people wished to see peace and cooperation flourish in the subcontinent, he added.
He expressed hope that the endeavours by SAFMA will encourage taking of bold steps to make South Asia an economic powerhouse that will benefit its over one billion people.
The two countries need durable peace and security to focus on the social and economic development of their people, President Zardari said, adding, “On this occasion I wish to express my full support to the endeavours of SAFMA to bring the people of the two countries closer and help build bridges of understanding, cooperation and trust.”
“I wish its efforts to bring the two people to come closer and become the building blocks of the architecture of durable peace and cooperation in the region,” the president concluded.