Islamabad, May 10: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Monday said he is looking forward to a telephonic talk with his Indian counterpart S M Krishna on Tuesday to decide the modalities for future “uninterrupted” dialogue between the two sides to resolve bilateral issues.
“While the two countries had agreed to come back to the negotiating table to discuss all the issues, in order for the peace process to achieve concrete results it was important that the dialogue between the two countries continued uninterruptedly,” Qureshi was quoted as saying in a statement issued by the Foreign Office.
The India-Pakistan peace process can achieve concrete results only if the dialogue between the two countries continues without interruption, Qureshi said.
Qureshi made the remarks while speaking at a meeting with a group of former foreign ministers, foreign secretaries and ambassadors to consult them on the resumption of the peace process with India.
Qureshi said, he was “looking forward to having a telephone conversation with his Indian counterpart Krishna tomorrow” to decide the modalities for future talks between the two sides.
He also said Pakistan wants to sustain the “momentum generated” during the meeting between Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the SAARC summit at Thimphu, Bhutan.
He expressed the hope that a meeting between the two Foreign Ministers would take place “sooner rather than later so that the peace process could be resumed without further delay.”
He also said he “strongly believed that no viable solution of the dispute could be found and implemented unless it was in accordance with the aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.”
It was encouraging that the Kashmiri leadership across the board had welcomed the resumption of dialogue, he added. Qureshi welcomed suggestions made by the participants and appreciated their observations.

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