About the eruption of violence in India over cow-slaughtering, the spokesman said the country which claimed to be a secular state should guarantee basic rights to minorities.
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Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) spokesman Qazi Khalilullah.
To a separate query on whether Pakistan had asked India for a meeting between the two foreign ministers along with the meeting of their NSAs as was proposed by India on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the Spokesperson said, “Yes”. Pakistan, however, insisted that it would agree only if another meeting was arranged between Aziz and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to discuss resumption of dialogue on all other outstanding issues, including the issue of Kashmir, sources said in New Delhi.
Further, Khalilullah said Pakistan is ready for talks with India but pre-conditions are not acceptable.
A Muslim man was lynched in India’s largest state, Uttar Pradesh, by a Hindu mob that reportedly suspected that the family of the deceased had beef in their meal.
The contact, the person said, took place in the weeks preceding the visits to New York by the Indian and Pakistani delegations.
The Washington Post report talked at length about the possible cooperation by the U.S. with Pakistan in return of a commitment by Islamabad to keep its programme focused on possible threat India and not to indulge in the development of long range missiles.
Pakistan today said it was seeking worldwide cooperation, including with the USA, on civil nuclear energy, amid reports that America is negotiating a deal with it that might lead to an agreement similar to the Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
Sharif believes that Pakistan sees its relations with the U.S. as a partnership which was in the interest of the two countries, the region and the world, the statement added.
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Fielding a question on Taliban attacks in Afghanistan, he said, there was “no truth in allegations that Pakistani agencies or forces” are involved in such attacks. He said if the two sides agreed, Pakistan was ready to facilitate them. The spokesperson said Pakistan condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. “We will not tolerate the presence of Daish [Islamic State militant group] or any of its associated groups on our land”, he added. The last time Pakistan walked out of this saying you are not allowing us to do this and we can’t accept that.
