ISLAMABAD, April 24: The Pak-India peace process is irreversible and the people and parliaments will not allow any of the two governments to withdraw from it.

This was stated by the head of the visiting delegation of the Indian Parliament, Narmiladesh Panday, and Deputy Convener of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Dr Farooq Sattar while talking to newsmen here at a reception hosted by the MQM in honour of the delegation on Tuesday.

Dr Sattar said during his meeting with the Indian parliamentary delegation that it had been reviewed how relations between the two countries could be improved and the peace process strengthened and stabilized.

He said it was also discussed how to make the peace process irreversible and set a time-frame for the completion of the process.

He said the possibility of strengthening parliamentary diplomacy to ensure sustainability of the process also figured at the talks.

He said the two sides agreed that there should be more exchange of parliamentary delegations between the two countries, adding that the importance of parliamentary diplomacy was being recognized now the world over.

The MQM leader said the success of the peace process would enable the peoples of the two countries to come out of the quagmire of poverty, unemployment and price hike and attain their due share in world economics.

He said the parliaments and the peoples of Pakistan and India had owned the peace process and now it was impossible to roll it back.

He said future governments in both the countries would also find it difficult to withdraw from the peace process.

Narmaladesh Panday stressed that parliamentarians of the two countries should work collectively to resolve bilateral problems.

He said the people of both countries had attached great expectations with the peace process and were anxiously awaiting its success.

He said that the peace process could not be rolled back now and was bound to move forward.