Pak-India postpone talks on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service
ISLAMABAD : Pakistan and India after mutual consultations postponed the technical level talks on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service scheduled to be held from 8-9 April.
Fresh dates would be worked out through diplomatic channels. Both the countries had earlier agreed to start bus service between Srinagar and Muzaffar as part of confidence building measures aimed at lowering tension between Pakistan and India and to facilitate the Kashmiri families divided in Occupied and Azad Kashmir. It is also a step towards resolving the long standing issue of Kashmir.
The Confidence Building measures will pave way to the settlement of all outstanding disputes between the two countries and to move forward towards a durable peace in the region.
Pakistan on last Monday proposed India to hold talks on nuclear confidence building measures, CMBs from May 25-26 as part of road map agreed to between the two sides.
The proposal for hosing expert level talks on nuclear CBMs was conveyed to India as part if CMBs aimed at security confidence building measures and Jammu and Kashmir.
Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokhar said that there should be meaningful progress in dialogue process between Pakistan and India to settle all outstanding issues including the core issue of Jammu and Kashmir.
He said that Pakistan wants meaningful and serious dialogue with India on the settlement of all issues including the contentious issue of Kashmir.
He said that dialogue process must move and there should be progress on discussions with India on all major issues including Kashmir. He made it clear that Pakistan was sincere with India in the peace process.
He denied that President General Pervez Musharraf hinted at quitting from the dialogue process if India does not move forward.