Islamabad, February 26: Pakistan has asked India to revive the stalled composite dialogue process as soon as possible because open-ended talks or engagement would not help the two countries to address their outstanding issues, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said today.
“We told the Indian side very clearly that Pakistan believes it is necessary to resume the composite dialogue as soon as possible,” Bashir said at the Wagha border after crossing over from India following talks yesterday with his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao.
“There will be no benefit from an open-ended dialogue.
If we hold talks without any agenda or with an open agenda it will have some benefits but we cannot take any firms steps to move forward,” he told reporters.
Pakistan believes that if the composite dialogue is “revived from where it was left off, it would be a big confidence-building and trust-building measure,” Bashir said.
–Agencies