Malik for positive perspective of Indo-Pak talks
ISLAMABAD, Jul 19 (APP): Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Monday that the recent Indo-Pak talks should be taken in a positive perspective as such parleys would pave a way for future progress on the conflicting issues. “It is time for exchange of hearts. Let us sow seeds of love and peace, so that future generations have only the option to reap love, and nothing but love. Let us save our future generations from the disease of hate and terrorism”, Malik, who has nearly 3,500 fans on social networking website “twitter” , wrote in his latest Twitter posting.
His comments came amid exchange of barbs between External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi following their meeting in Islamabad on Thursday last.
Malik, who had a meeting with Home Minister P Chidambaram on the margins of the SAARC Interior Ministers’ conference here last month, said that they both “will move forward in terms of delivery of commitments based on what we agreed.”
“Pak-India talks should not be judged mathematically like 2+2=4 but be assessed with past political and diplomatic rival history of two countries in view,” Malik said.
He said: “We should be happy that Pakistan and India are now at least interacting on the core issues. Hence meeting between the two FMs should be viewed as a positive step.”
Referring to his June 25 talks with Chidambaram, Malik said:
“I and Mr. Chidambaram met, we have agreed (on) a roadmap and that roadmap is intact. We don’t like terrorism, we will not allow anyone to use Pakistani soil against any other country.”
He said the roadmap finalized by him and Chidambaram is expected to produce “good results” soon but did not give details.