New Delhi: India on Friday invited Pakistan to resume talks after last year’s slow-progressing dialogue between the arch-rivals. There has been no headway in resolving outstanding issues between the two countries.
“I have extended an invitation to my Pakistani counterpart to visit India and earnestly hope that we can take the process of dialogue forward,” said External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna.
“We expect Pakistan to fulfill its repeated assurances given to us at the highest level to not allow the territory under its control for fomenting terrorism aimed against us, and to bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai terrorist attack to justice expeditiously,” Krishna said.
In 2004, India and Pakistan agreed to a peace process called composite dialogue that covered eight issues, including Kashmir, terrorism and Pakistan’s concerns over river dams on Indian side, which it sees as a threat to its water supplies.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari hailed results from talks in September 2008 as the countries completed four rounds of diplomatic meetings. But talks were suspended two months later, in November, 2008, after the terror raid on Mumbai.
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