Krishna, Qureshi meet a ‘positive step’: Malik
ISLAMABAD:
With India and Pakistan engaging in war of words post-July 15 parleys between their foreign ministers, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik tweeted that the talks should not be judged “mathematically like 2+2=4”.
“It is time for exchange of hearts. Let us sow seeds of love and peace, so that future generations have only the option to reap love, and noting but love....Let us save our future generations from the disease of hate and terrorism,” Malik, who has nearly 3,500 followers, said in his latest Twitter posting.
Malik, who had a meeting with home minister P Chidambaram on the margins of the Saarc Interior Ministers’ conference in Islamabad last month, said that they both “will move forward in terms of delivery of commitments based on what we agreed…The roadmap of commitment and performance between me and H E Mr Chidambaram is fully intact.”
He said: “Pak(istan)-India talks should not be judged mathematically like 2+2=4 but be assessed with past political and diplomatic rival history of two countries in view…We should be happy that Pakistan and India are now at least interacting on the core issues. Hence meeting between the two FMs should be viewed as a positive step.”
Published in The Express Tribune, July 19th, 2010.
With India and Pakistan engaging in war of words post-July 15 parleys between their foreign ministers, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik tweeted that the talks should not be judged “mathematically like 2+2=4”.
“It is time for exchange of hearts. Let us sow seeds of love and peace, so that future generations have only the option to reap love, and noting but love....Let us save our future generations from the disease of hate and terrorism,” Malik, who has nearly 3,500 followers, said in his latest Twitter posting.
Malik, who had a meeting with home minister P Chidambaram on the margins of the Saarc Interior Ministers’ conference in Islamabad last month, said that they both “will move forward in terms of delivery of commitments based on what we agreed…The roadmap of commitment and performance between me and H E Mr Chidambaram is fully intact.”
He said: “Pak(istan)-India talks should not be judged mathematically like 2+2=4 but be assessed with past political and diplomatic rival history of two countries in view…We should be happy that Pakistan and India are now at least interacting on the core issues. Hence meeting between the two FMs should be viewed as a positive step.”
Published in The Express Tribune, July 19th, 2010.