New Delhi, Dec 16 (Inditop.com) Pakistan is waiting for India’s response to “repeated requests” for dialogue, the country’s High Commissioner Shahid Malik said here.
“It is unfortunate that India and Pakistan are at a stage where there is no dialogue,” Malik said Tuesday evening. He was speaking at the launch of an autography of the late Baloch leader Mir Ghaus Baksh Bizenjo, organised here by the Policy and Planning Group (PPG) at the Indian Islamic Cultural Centre.
“We have made repeated requests for dialogue and Pakistan is awaiting a response,” the envoy said.
Recalling the controversial Sharm-el Sheikh joint statement signed in July this year between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yusuf Raza Gilani, Malik said the two leaders had agreed that dialogue was the only way to move forward.
“We hope that the July statement will be acted upon soon,” he said.
The relationship between the two countries was frozen after last year’s Mumbai terrorist attack, which India blamed on Pakistan-based terror outfits. India has been asking Pakistan to bring the perpetrators of the 26/11 attacks to justice before restoring the dialogue process.
