Pak expresses desire for relationship with India

The foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India met here late Tuesday night on the sidelines of NAM summit in a bid to start the peace process and resolve other issues of mutual importance. Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir while briefing media after his one and a half hour long meeting with Indian counterpart Shiv Shankar Menon said Pakistan discussed its leadership and peoples desire to work towards constructive relationship with India. We believe to get back to structural dialogue and arrived at what we need to resolve between the two governments, he said. The Foreign Secretary said, We talked about regional cooperation and I underscored the fact that despite differences we have allowed the regional cooperation to go along. He said Pakistan was not shy of addressing the issued of terrorism and there was a great clarity and great determination on part of the government and the nation. He said Pakistan had been giving India periodic update of the investigation into the Mumbai incident.

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