Declaring that “war is not an option”, India today said it had made a decision to hold dialogue with Pakistan as it is the only way to remove “the shadow of terrorism”.
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Later in the evening, a delegation of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) met Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit and discussed Swaraj’s recent meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. But we want to make it clear that talks and terror can’t go together. “Dialogue is drowned by the sound of explosion”, she said.
The minister said the gas sale and purchase agreement had already been signed in 2013 that set the pricing mechanism under which gas price at Turkmen border would be around 20 per cent less than that of Brent crude. There is no third party.
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and his Pakistani counterpart Nasir Janjua held talks, days after Indian PM Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif met in French capital Paris.
The minister informed the house that the project was shelved in past due to several issues and reservations by some countries, however he added that the Prime Minister of Pakistani’s meeting with Turkmenistan leadership helped to materialized the project.
About TAPI gas pipeline project, Sharif said the project will be a game changer for Pakistan, and will open new vistas of regional economic cooperation towards progress and prosperity.
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She said Pakistan had arrested the suspects for perpetrating the Mumbai terrorist attack of 2008 and a trial is underway in Pakistan in this regard.
