By IRNA,
Islamabad : Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that an early, just and peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute in keeping with aspiration of the people of Kashmir will help Pakistan and India to achieve their full potential.
The Prime Minister said his Government is committed to improving relations with India so as to usher in an era of peace in the region.
He said that it is no coincidence that relations between the two countries always improve when a civilian government is in place in Pakistan.
The Prime Minister said this while talking to Kuldip Nayar, the veteran Indian journalist, parliamentarian and diplomat, who called on him at the Prime Minister’s House this morning.
The Prime Minister said his government will continue to take more CBMs to further improve our ties in different fields.
People to people contacts will also be increased to achieve the objects, he added.
The Prime Minister said that unlike India where the transition is from democracy to democracy, in Pakistan it is from dictatorship to democracy and by that standard we were doing pretty well.
The Prime Minister said that the restoration of the 1973 Constitution in its original form is the top priority of the government, for we want the Parliament to be supreme and sovereign.
The constitutional balance as envisaged in the 1973 constitution will be restored, he said.
He said he is confident that Pakistan will gradually shape up into a two-party system as was the case before 1998.
The Prime Minister said that his Government is also committed to the independence of judiciary and reinstatement of judges, modalities for which are being worked out with the coalition partners.
He said these issues will be settled before long as his party is in the forefront of movement of independent judiciary and has made many sacrifices for it.
Nayar thanked the Prime Minister for giving him the opportunity to meet with him.
He said he was currently visiting Pakistan to attend a seminar in Lahore and meet political leaders after the formation of the civilian government in Pakistan.
The meeting was attended by senior official of Ministries of Information and Foreign Affairs.