Pakistan Ready for Starting Meaningful Dialogue with India

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Pakistan Ready for Starting Meaningful Dialogue with India

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Pakistan on Monday reiterated it was ready for the start of meaningful dialogue with India to resolve all outstanding disputes while rejecting as "baseless" India's oft-repeated accusations of cross-border terrorism.

Pakistan did not want war and but desired resolution of all disputes including the core issue of Kashmir through negotiations and dialogue, Foreign Office Spokesman Aziz Ahmed Khan told a press briefing here.

Khan stressed, "This is our position and we are pursuing it."

He added that the only way to resolve disputes was through negotiations and there was no other way.

Khan said, "We are ready for start of a meaningful dialogue, weare going (to Kazakistan) with positive mind to start a dialogue process," Khan said.

About a meeting between President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee initiated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Kazakistan, he said Pakistan had good relations with Russia and welcomes Putin's initiative for the meeting on the sidelines of an international conference on Asia..

He said, "Pakistan welcomes all attempts by the international community to convince India to come to the negotiating table."

Khan said there was no "back-channel" contacts with India.

Pakistan, he said, would like to have the conversation and dialogue with India through official channel in front of the entire international community.

Khan said that the line of communication between the Directors Generals of Military Operations of the two countries was intact. However, he said, the situation on the borders remained tense as before. India amassed all its troops on the border and Pakistan was obliged to put its forces on the defensive posture, he added.

Referring to checking border "infiltration," Khan said that Pakistan was ready to accept a mechanism for monitoring of infiltration from the Line of Control (LoC) which divides Pakistanand India in Kashmir.

Khan also rejected the allegations of the Indian Defense Minister about presence of Al-Qaida members along the LoC.

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