ISLAMABAD (APP) - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday said Pakistan is a peace-loving and responsible nuclear state and will maintain good relations with all neighbouring countries including India. Talking to media persons after attending a function of National University of Science and Technology (NUST) here, the Prime Minister said the government supports friendly relations with India. About investigations into Mumbai incident, the Prime Minister said he had already assured his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh of full cooperation. "We want to maintain good relations with India," he said, adding Pakistan supports peaceful environment in the region. The Prime Minister negated the impression that India approached the Security Council on the issue, instead, he said the matter was already pending with it before approval of the resolution on banning of militant organisations. He appreciated the efforts of friendly countries for resumption of normal relations between Pakistan and India. The Prime Minister declined the notion that there existed a silent agreement between the government and Taliban on not creating tension if armed forces are pulled out from the area. He said the government was not in favour of fighting with people in the tribal areas, however it did not support establishment of parallel authority. Gilani said nobody would be allowed to challenge writ of the government and to encourage militancy so that NATO forces do not get an opportunity to sneak in Pakistan's territory. He said the tribals were as much patriots as other countrymen, who also supported the country's founder Quaid-e-Azam after the establishment of Pakistan. When asked to comment on the resentment shown by PML(N) over meeting held between Governor Punjab Salman Taseer and PML(Q), the Prime Minister responded in a lighter vein that "Governor Punjab is the only one enjoying all fundamental rights." Meanwhile, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said science and technology has profoundly influenced the country's economy and culture, adding the government would provide maximum support to well-conceived educational projects. Addressing the inauguration ceremony of new Islamabad campus of National University of Science and Technology (NUST), the Prime Minister said in the new millennium, knowledge had become the most reliable instrument of measuring development and prosperity of any nation. The Prime Minister said, "Under the new paradigm, it is not just the acquisition of latest knowledge which matters, rather it is the creative application of such knowledge which paves the way for progress and prosperity." He termed NUST a befitting place for knowledge seekers, and said the institution had made everyone proud by joining the ranks of top 400 out of around 30,000 universities of the world. "It is a great achievement and a very heartening news for the people who want the best quality higher education in Pakistan," he said. Gilani urged NUST and all other universities to undertake the need-based research to find out solutions to the problems confronted by the society and economy. Being the university's chancellor, the Prime Minister said he was pleased to know that since its inception in 1991, the NUST had produced 9,500 graduates including 11 PhDs and 1300 MS and MPhil degree holders. The Prime Minister said Pakistan's demographics having 100 million people below the age of 25, can deliver a remarkable dividend, provided developed in the most right way. "It is however very unfortunate that only one out of every five matriculates makes it to the university in our country. We have therefore the challenge to equip these young men and women with best kind of professional education and skills," he said. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said by considering education an important element for human development, the government had earmarked more than Rs.24 billion in the current fiscal year, making 10 percent of the total federal PSDP. "My government's seven-point 'Roadmap to the Better Future of Pakistan' aims at improving access to education, including higher education in the universities," he said. He said measures were also envisioned to overcome gender, rural-urban and regional disparities, for which there was a plan to increase the budget allocation to at least four percent of the GNP. He said the expenditure on higher education would be enhanced substantially.