Solution has to be found in talks: PM: Pakistan-India issues
By Jawed Naqvi
NEW DELHI, May 19: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali said on Monday that war between India and Pakistan would be inhuman and solutions to all issues, including Kashmir, had to be found in dialogue.
Mr Jamali told India’s state-run Doordarshan TV that the current circumstances appeared to indicate that he might have to visit India rather at some point.
The prime minister said he had opportunities to visit India earlier but he could not go there.
“Now the circumstances are such that perhaps I may have to come. Now there would not be those reservations,” Mr Jamali said in the interview that is being televised in two parts, with the remaining half to be shown later.
Mr Jamali was asked if he would invite Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to Ziarat in Balochistan for the next summit. “If there is a ziarat in Ziarat, what could be better,” he remarked, although he gave no indication that such an event was nigh.
Asked to comment on the recent bomb blasts in Saudi Arabia, Mr Jamali made an extended remark on terrorism.
“Terrorism anywhere in any part of the world is not supported by anybody. Unfortunately Pakistan itself, India itself and the countries that you mentioned, have been victims of terrorism. I think it’s very inhuman to destroy humanity and human rights. So we have never done it. India has never done it. No one appreciates it.
“It’s a sick mind which leads people and generations, which are tutored by some sick mind and taken in that direction, as the real issue.”
Commenting on a question about Indian “sensitivities to cross-border terrorism,” Mr Jamali said: “I do not have a magic wand that you refer to. But there is a resolve to address all sensitivities.”
“It is time that India and Pakistan decide what is that we have to do for the future generations to come. We have already destroyed two generations. We don’t want more generations to be destroyed.
“My assessment is that need for self-reliance, public mandate, wish of the people, the desire of the nation, demands of the circumstances and the conditions will compel us both the countries to come to terms in a very respectable and an honourable way to decide each and every issue, including, of course, the hard, core issue of Kashmir.
“This is what has to come about. And I think that this is what we have realized. India has realized. That’s why we have been saying that we have to sit across the table, that the time for war is over, that you can’t destroy nations, you can’t destroy countries.
“Because why should they (the people of the countries) bear the brunt of any government in power anywhere whether in India or Pakistan?
“We get their mandate, we get their faith and trust to lead the country, it is demanding of us that we give them back what they want. It is peace, harmony, development, brotherly relations, economics, trade, cultural ties. This is the requirement,” he added.
