Pakistani political, military leadership meet to discuss tension with India

By KUNA,

Islamabad : A day after assurances of no war and positive developments between India and Pakistan, the political and military leadership in Islamabad was meeting to discuss Indo-Pak relations.


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Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani held a meeting with military chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi after the military chief met with President Asif Ali Zardari, official sources told KUNA.

The sources said that the meetings were dominated by Indo-Pak tension and the strategy to counter the Indian blame-game as well as any possible aggression.

The leadership, said the sources, had agreed on the notion to resolve differences through peaceful negotiations.

On Tuesday, the foreign minister in a policy statement urged India to withdraw the red alert, which was signaled to the airforce, and relocate forces deployed along the border in the aftermath of Mumbai attacks to peace time location.

He said that tension had reduced between the two adversaries at the intervention of allied states, including the US and Saudi Arab.

Pakistan and India have come at the brink of another war, the fourth since independence, after Mumbai attacks, which New Delhi imputed to Pakistan-based terrorists.

Islamabad has asked India to provide it evidence of the Pakistan-based elements’ involvement in the attacks but so far no evidence has been provided.

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