‘Delhi, Hurriyat talks can't succeed without Pak’
Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday claimed that any
talks between the Indian government and separatist Kashmiri
leaders will not be successful without its involvement.
They will "not be successful" unless Pakistan is
involved in such parleys, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood
Qureshi told reporters in his home town of Multan.
His comments came a day after a meeting of Hurriyat
moderates, chaired by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq in Srinagar, to
decide if they should go for talks with the Centre remained
inconclusive, with some of them demanding that all
stakeholders, including leaders from outside the separatist
amalgam be taken into confidence before going ahead.
Qureshi also denied reports that there were back
channels contacts between India and Pakistan.
He said Pakistan wanted a "meaningful" result-oriented
dialogue with India and that he had conveyed this to his
counterpart S M Krishna in Kabul during their meeting on the
sidelines of the swearing in ceremony of Hamid Karzai as the
President of Afghanistan for a second five-year term.
When asked whether Pakistan will face any pressure from
the US to act against perpetrators of Mumbai attacks following
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's November 22-25 visit there,
Qureshi said Islamabad will not take pressure from any
quarter, including Washington, and everybody should realise
this.
PTI