India PakNo with trust deficit
Ahead of the talks between the foreign ministers of the two countries, Pakistan tonight said it desired to give a political push to the dialogue process with India. “There is no trust deficit between the top political leaderships of the two countries…things are moving in the right direction,” Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said on his arrival here for talks with Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao tomorrow.
He said the two sides had covered a lot of ground during the dialogue process that was resumed in February and hoped to make some announcements after the talks between the foreign ministers on Wednesday.
The two top diplomats are expected to firm up the details of cross-Line of Control (LoC) confidence building measures (CBMs) to be announced after talks between External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar on Wednesday.
Khar, Pakistan’s first woman Foreign Minister and the youngest to occupy the post, arrives in New Delhi tomorrow.
Rao and Bashir, who will be meeting a month after their talks in Islamabad, are expected to review the entire gamut of bilateral issues and firm up deliverables that will be unveiled by the foreign ministers.
Increasing the frequency of Srinagar-Muzaffarabad and Poonch-Rawalakot bus services and the number of trading days across the LoC and opening more trading points are expected to be unveiled after the talks between the foreign ministers.
Sources said the two ministers would also discuss measures to liberalise the visa regime though there may not be any immediate announcement in this regard.
Ahead of the talks, India made it clear that there was no dilution in its stand that the masterminds of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks must be speedily brought to justice by Pakistan.
TNS adds from Amritsar: Kashmir would be part of talks between India and Pakistan scheduled to take place in New Delhi on Wednesday, said Pak Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir after crossing over to India via the Wagah-Attari land route on Monday. On the 13/7 Mumbai blasts, he said: “We understand the pain and suffering of the blast victims. Every country today is facing the scourge of terrorism and the only way forward is to cooperate with one another. We have been extending help in the fight against terror across the world and will provide assistance to India in probing Mumbai blasts.”
 Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir (fourth from left) crosses over to India at the Attari checkpost on Monday. Photo: Vishal Kumar |
Ahead of the talks between the foreign ministers of the two countries, Pakistan tonight said it desired to give a political push to the dialogue process with India. “There is no trust deficit between the top political leaderships of the two countries…things are moving in the right direction,” Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said on his arrival here for talks with Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao tomorrow.
He said the two sides had covered a lot of ground during the dialogue process that was resumed in February and hoped to make some announcements after the talks between the foreign ministers on Wednesday.
The two top diplomats are expected to firm up the details of cross-Line of Control (LoC) confidence building measures (CBMs) to be announced after talks between External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar on Wednesday.
Khar, Pakistan’s first woman Foreign Minister and the youngest to occupy the post, arrives in New Delhi tomorrow.
Rao and Bashir, who will be meeting a month after their talks in Islamabad, are expected to review the entire gamut of bilateral issues and firm up deliverables that will be unveiled by the foreign ministers.
Increasing the frequency of Srinagar-Muzaffarabad and Poonch-Rawalakot bus services and the number of trading days across the LoC and opening more trading points are expected to be unveiled after the talks between the foreign ministers.
Sources said the two ministers would also discuss measures to liberalise the visa regime though there may not be any immediate announcement in this regard.
Ahead of the talks, India made it clear that there was no dilution in its stand that the masterminds of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks must be speedily brought to justice by Pakistan.
TNS adds from Amritsar: Kashmir would be part of talks between India and Pakistan scheduled to take place in New Delhi on Wednesday, said Pak Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir after crossing over to India via the Wagah-Attari land route on Monday. On the 13/7 Mumbai blasts, he said: “We understand the pain and suffering of the blast victims. Every country today is facing the scourge of terrorism and the only way forward is to cooperate with one another. We have been extending help in the fight against terror across the world and will provide assistance to India in probing Mumbai blasts.”
No trust deficit between India, Pak leadership: Salman Bashir
ReplyDeleteNew Delhi, July 25 (ANI): Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir, who arrived here this evening to attend the foreign secretary-level meeting on Tuesday, said that there is no trust deficit in so far as the upper echelons at the leadership level is concerned.
ReplyDelete"There is no trust deficit in so far as the upper echelons at the leadership level that is concerned. What we call the trust deficit has to be more clearly understood, I think, basically the effort is to actually build greater understanding, instead of saying that it is a trust deficit, I would say, deepening of understanding," said Bashir.
Bashir will hold talks with his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao here on Tuesday.
The two diplomats will firm up the agenda for talks between External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar on Wednesday.
"It is good to be here, back in Delhi, for me personally and for my team. We are here a day ahead to prepare for the Foreign Ministers meeting. The Foreign Secretary of India was in Islamabad and we have covered some ground and we hope to give the preparations the final touch in the meeting tomorrow," said Bashir.
"I would say that we have had a good engagement process for the last five or six months and we hope that this will be productive and will lead to a good meeting of the two foreign ministers," he added. (ANI)