The Interior Minister met with his Indian counterpart on the sidelines of a SAARC moot in Thimpu, Bhutan. It was their second one-on-one interaction since their meeting in Islamabad last year, on the sidelines of a regional meeting.
Malik has revealed that issues of mutual interest were discussed in the meeting. He said that he stressed in the meeting that terrorism poses the most significant existential challenge to peace and security in South Asia.
The interior minister's remark was similarly echoed earlier by newly appointed foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar, who is scheduled to hold key talks in New Delhi.
Khar’s remarks came after she held talks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the 18th Asean Regional Forum (ARF) Foreign Ministerial Meeting on the Indonesian island of Bali.
“Pakistan is the first one to suffer because of terrorism, because of militancy...you don’t need cajoling on that; that is in our national interest,” said Khar.
The foreign minister asserted that Pakistan was pro-actively engaging with neighbouring countries, particularly Afghanistan and India, to achieve sustainable peace and stability in the region.
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How many commissions have been set up in Pakistan but none has seen the light of the day. A team of terrorist apologists would take several trips to India and the report would either not be completed for one excuse or the other or hide from public for public interest! Same old song and dance.
I think we should not send any commission 2 india
Pls Mr Minister, save your extinct taxpayers money, as if there was going to be any sincerity in regards to this sorry affair , than it certainly would not be two and half years later!! Wake up !! Stop insulting people's intelligence, perhaps your local crowd has lost all ability to grasp the situation and believe you, but not the rest of the world !!!!!! It took your Govt over 6 weeks to acknowledge the very fact that the culprits were Pak nationals!!!! India has already resigned to the fact, that Pakistan will never act on these issue as they simply are incapable of dealing with the mess in their own backyard, and Uncle Sam will at some stage have to deal with these cockroaches themselves with or without Pakistan's assistance !!! I don't even see the need to have dialogue with pakistan, until such time that an actual actions have been taken for satisfactory conclusions !!!!
Bravo, Mr. RM
how many more lies shall we tell to the international community.. we are branded globally as liers.... be it to US, to India, to financial donors... I dont think any one takes what we say seriously because of our double faced approach to all problems. Very shameful as a taxpayer.
@Fighter: very sad to hear views like yours still exist in our country after being wrecked by the menace of terrorism for years. I can not even begin to explain how wrong your worldview is.
@Fighter: You speak like terrorist.....
Too little too late.
This is a joke. Why should we pay with our tax payers money to help the Indian probe? Also, who are we investigating? Why all this drama, every country has right to work for its own interest and if some organizations like JUD wants to help us on the way why should we punish them in return? someone please explain me.
'Pakistan will send judicial commission to probe Mumbai attacks' - Mr. rehman malik said the same thing 3 months ago. but nothing happened. Lets see when pak judicial commission reaches mumbai.