Pakistani Prime Minister: India "Lacks Passion" For Peace
Ankit Gupta - All Headline News Staff Writer New Delhi, India (AHN) - India is not passionate about making peace with Pakistan, Pakistan's prime minister was reported as saying days before officials of the two countries are due to hold peace talks. Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz's comments were made in an interview to Indian weekly magazine Outlook. "I believe you must have a passion for peace," a statement from the magazine quoted Aziz as saying. "We in Pakistan, President (Pervez) Musharraf and I, have a passion for peace. I have yet to see this passion on the part of India," Aziz said. A slow-moving peace process between the two countries suffered a severe blow after Indian investigators pointed fingers at a Pakistan-based Islamist militant group and Pakistan's military intelligence agency for the serial bomb blasts in Mumbai, in which more than 180 people were killed. India, under pressure from mounting public anger, called off talks between foreign secretaries of the two countries scheduled in August in New Delhi to review their peace process. But the two officials and their ministers are due to meet on the sidelines of a South Asian conference in Bangladesh next week and hold informal negotiations. Aziz dismissed India's charges against Lashkar-e-Toiba, the Pakistani militant group suspected to be behind the train bombings in Mumbai. "We don't see any evidence of their activity that's prejudicial |
