India willing to release all Pak fishermen: Krishna

New Delhi, October 15: Even as the dialogue process remains stalled, India today said it is willing to release all Pakistani fishermen after proper verification and undertake other humanitarian initiatives.

External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, who expects his Pakistan counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Delhi during the early part of next year, said India wants to encourage the people-to-people contacts.

In an interaction with a group of journalists here, he said the two sides had reached agreements on such issues during the Foreign Ministerial talks in Islamabad in July but Pakistan had disfavoured making it public.

He, however, did not spell out the agreements that were reached but information regarding which was withheld.

Talking about humanitarian issues, Krishna said India is willing to release all the Pakistani fishermen held here.

–Agencies