Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz on Pak India Talks, Geo News Headlines 22 August 2015 Prime Minister’s advisor on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz today (Saturday) told stated that he is ready to visit New Delhi for National Security Advisor (NSA) level talks without any pre-conditions. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Sartaj Aziz said it was India who set a precondition preventing us to meet the Hurriyat leaders. “More ironic is their alibi that Pakistan was trying to distort the agenda, nothing could be further from the truth,” he said. The advisor said that India seems reluctant to recognize the sign of the most important statement in the Ufa agreement that says, "India and Pakistan have a collective responsibility... and discuss all issues". He the main purpose of the meeting was to reduce tension on the Line on Control (LoC). Aziz said there have been 70 ceasefire violations by the Indian side in the past one month and over 100 in the past two months. He said that Indian media was told that Pakistan was apprehensive of the dossiers prepared by Doval and Pakistan was looking for an exit. “I have 3 dossiers on RAW promoting terrorism in Pakistan to be handed over to Mr Doval,” Sartaj Aziz waved the documents, saying that if he did not get this opportunity on August 24, he will get the chance to hand them over to Doval in New York next month. He urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ponder over the most important part of the Ufa statement, that it is collective responsibility to promote development and think of all ways and means to initiate dialogue between the two countries. “We never expected this meeting to lead to breakthrough. The purpose was to reduce tension and to address each others concerns,” he remarked. He said: “It was a minimum agenda, so right now the cancelation of the visit leads to escalation of tension, that is not desirable.” Responding to Indian objection over scheduled meeting with Kashmiri leaders in New Delhi, Sartaj Aziz said that Pakistan is very disturbed with the arrest of Hurriyat leaders. “Whenever we go to Dellhi we invite leaders from both sides. For the last 20 years, every time our leaders go to India, they met Hurriyat leaders,” he clarified. The National Security Advisor s remarks came a day after India warned Pakistan against meeting with Hurriyat leaders, saying it would not be appropriate. Pakistan s foreign ministry had responded with a statement saying that India s ambassador to Islamabad has been informed that it would not be possible for Aziz to follow the "advice" of the Indian government about not meeting the Kashmiri leaders

• published: 22 Aug 2015
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