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More steps needed to further improve Pak-India ties: Menon
MAZHARABAD Dec 19 : Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Shivshankar Menon has said that Indo-Pak relations were now better than these had been for a long time in the past.
"What we like to see in future is many more steps for the improvement in relations," he said while talking to newsmen at a luncheon hosted by Defence Minister Rao Sikandar Iqbal for diplomats from 25 countries.He said that about 98 steps had been proposed during the process of dialogue between India and Pakistan and added that both the countries had reached the stage of implementing these steps.
"We like the resolution of all the issues including Kashmir through peaceful negotiations," Menon said.
He said that there was a need of making travel and contact easier for further improvement in the Indo-Pak relations.
Responding to a question on the Baghliar Dam issue, he said that India had provided all the technical data to Pakistan on December 15. He hoped that Pakistan would study this data and hold further dialogue on the issue.
To a query, Menon said that India had pulled back some units of troops from occupied Kashmir for peace and added that further steps in this regard depend on operational conditions.