Jamali looks for meeting with Singh to talk peace
AFP, Islamabad
Pakistani Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali called his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh Saturday and told him he was looking forward to an early meeting between the foreign secretaries of the two countries to move peace talks forward, officials said. Jamali congratulated the Indian leader on his recent appointment and reiterated Pakistan's resolve to bring about a durable peace between Pakistan and India and forge "cooperative relations with all countries of the region," an official statement said. The Indian PM said "his government would move forward with a positive approach for improvement of relations," it said. "We should continue to move forward with confidence building measures as this would facilitate and pave the way for discussions on Kashmir," the statement quoted the Indian leader as saying. Pakistan says durable peace between the nuclear-armed neighbours is dependent upon a solution to the Kashmir issue acceptable to the two countries and the people of Kashmir. The neighbours have fought three wars since independence in 1947, two of them triggered by their dispute over the Himalayan region, which is divided between them. The meeting was agreed in the dialogue roadmap drawn up by foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan at their meeting in Islamabad in February. The talks are scheduled for June but exact dates remains to be settled.
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