ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: There was total agreement and unanimity of views between the two sides when US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld held talks on Sunday with President Gen Pervez Musharraf and senior Pakistani officials, said a military spokesman here on Monday.

The spokesman, director-general of ISPR Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi, while speaking at the daily press briefing at foreign office along with foreign office spokesman, said that the discussions with the US defence secretary focused on defence-related matters.

When asked whether the US defence secretary shared details of the operational plan with President Musharraf, the spokesman said the overall happenings were certainly shared.

“But if you mean the nitty-gritty of the operational and tactical plans and what happens where, is not shared,” Gen Rashid said.

The DG-ISPR said the US side acknowledged the need for closer cooperation and integration between the two sides on the defence plan and hoped that with the lifting of the US sanctions, defence ties would be normalized. However, no shopping list had been discussed and no additional military requirements were sought by the US or Pakistan, he added.

Gen Qureshi said that the US defence secretary had reaffirmed that Washington would end its military operation in Afghanistan as soon as “the objectives” conceived by Washington and its close allies in the wake of Sept 11 attacks had been achieved but he gave no time limit for achieving the objectives.

Responding to questions, foreign office spokesman Aziz Khan rejected Indian charge of creating war-hysteria and affirmed that Islamabad continued to exercise maximum restraint, eschew war-hysteria and responded with maturity while pressing with its policy to seek settlement of the central issue (Kashmir) and all other outstanding issues with India.

However, he said Pakistan was ready and prepared to meet any eventuality should that arise from the other side.

The foreign office spokesman said that Pakistan favoured a broad-based government in Afghanistan which should be set up by the Afghan people’s representatives, preferably under the United Nations, in line with their long-standing aspiration to rebuild Afghanistan maintaining its national unity and integrity.

When asked whether Pakistan ever considered formation of a united states of Afghanistan since historically Afghanistan comprised different nationalities and ethnic entities, the spokesman rejected the questioner’s assumption that the Afghan people were divided and said that unfortunately during the last more than a decade people had been sidelined by warlords who unleashed civil war.

The spokesman confirmed that Afghan scholar Samad Hamid had a meeting with Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar. Mr Hamid has come here to hold consultations with different Afghan leaders in a bid to seek end to civil war and restore peace in Afghanistan.