Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz has said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are likely to meet in New York in September.
In an interview with an Indian newspaper, Aziz said India had demonstrated positive reaction and unconditional willingness in response to Pakistan’s offer for resumption of composite dialogue process.
The Indian newspaper claimed all the controversial issues including Kashmir will come under discussion during the talks between Pakistan and India.
Besides interior and foreign secretaries-level talks, a meeting between the premiers of two countries is also likely to take place on the sidelines of UN General Assembly session in September.
In his exclusive talks with Online, Aziz said the meeting between the prime ministers of Pakistan and India will occur in the third week of September on the sidelines of UN General Assembly session. Headway is likely to be made in terms of relations between Pakistan and India and outstanding issues among them during the meeting.
He said India had not linked the talks commencing from next month to progress in the Mumbai attack case.
The matter of importing electricity from India is under consideration, he said, adding that certain technical glitches are still there, which have to be removed essentially.
About Indian drone intrusion into Pakistan borders, he said Pakistan had lodged strong protest with India on violation of Pakistan borders by its drone and warned such incidents could prove detrimental for the efforts being launched in the perspective of friendly relations between the two countries and it could vitiate the conducive atmosphere for the possible meeting between the two premiers.
