By NNN-PTI,
Islamabad : Seeking to down play Home Minister P Chidambaram’s remarks that India may snap business and tourist links with Pakistan, Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani said he did not mind such statements as the Indian government was under “tremendous” public pressure over the Mumbai attack.
Asked to comment on Chidambaram’s remarks which he made in an interview to a British daily, Gilani told reporters on Tuesday : “I’ll act extremely responsibly.
“There is tremendous pressure of the public on the Indian government for such sort of statements. Therefore, I don’t mind their statements.” Gilani, who was speaking on the sidelines of a seminar, said he would probably make a policy statement on this issue in the National Assembly. He did not give details.
Chidambaram told ‘The Times’ daily on Monday that there were “many, many links” between India and Pakistan and if Islamabad did not help to bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks to justice, “those ties will become weaker and weaker and one day snap.”
“Why would we entertain Pakistani business people? Why would we entertain tourists in India? Why would we send tourists there?” Chidambaram told the paper.