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Talks with India is Pakistan’s strength not weakness: Abdul Basit

Talks with India is Pakistan’s strength not weakness: Abdul Basit
December 1, 2016
NEW DELHI (92 News) – Pakistan's High commissioner to India Abdul Basit has on Thursday said that holding dialogues with India is Pakistan’s strength not weakness. In an interview with the British Broadcasting Company, he said that Pakistan is ready to hold unconditional dialogues with India. “We have seen after fighting battles but there is need to holding dialogues for peaceful resolution of issues. We want dialogues, it is our strength, not weakness” he added. The High Commissioner said that our basic condition is that the dialogues must be comprehensive and all outstanding issues must be addressed. Abdul Basit said that the nuclear-arch rivals are not developing because of stalled negotiations. Responding to question regarding Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and Maulana Masood Azhar, he said that the cases were in the courts but Pakistan was ready to take action if provided any proof against them.