By IANS,
Islamabad : Pakistan Saturday said it was willing to resume the dialogue process with India but there “is no response” from New Delhi.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Pakistan invited Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao to Islamabad as per the Sharm el-Sheikh declaration between Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Geelani and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh “but there is no response from New Delhi so far”.
“India should not shy away from coming to the dialogue,” he told reporters at the foreign office here, adding: “Pakistan has no problem to resume talks with India.”
“If the road forward is dialogue… then they should come and sit and talk,” he maintained.
“We are committed on our stand that war is not a solution and the only option is negotiation and dialogue.
“War is not a solution to issue as it would amount to committing suicide and the two countries have no choice but to talk to each other,” he said.
Qureshi said domestic politics was “creating problems for the Indian leadership” to resume talks with Pakistan.
The minister said by extending an invitation to the Indian foreign secretary, Pakistan had expressed its sincerity for the dialogue process.
The proposed meeting between Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir was to have set the agenda for a meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting, he said.
Qureshi said Pakistan had no objection if India wanted to hold the meeting at a third venue.