Pak says formulating response to talks offer, prefers CDP

Rezaul H Laskar
Islamabad, Feb 7 (PTI) Pakistan Sunday said it is in the
process of framing a response to India's offer to resume talks
but indicated that it would prefer to stick to the established
composite dialogue process that was stalled in the wake of the
2008 Mumbai attacks.

"We are still in the process of holding internal
consultations (on the Indian offer) and have not really
formulated a response... It is important to know what we are
getting into and the trajectory of the (proposed) talks,"
Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit told PTI.
Referring to the stalled composite dialogue process,
Basit said: "We already have an established framework and it
would not be desirable to reinvent the wheel".
The spokesman made it clear that Pakistan was "not
against engagement with India" but said "talks for the sake of
talks would have no meaning".
All parleys would have to be "constructive and
meaningful," he said.
Basit said Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao had
suggested to Pakistan's High Commissioner in New Delhi Shahid
Malik during a meeting on Friday that the two sides should
hold their "first round of talks and take it from there".
India has proposed a meeting of the Foreign Secretaries
of the two countries to break the stalemate that has existed
since the Mumbai attacks, which were carried out by members of
the Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba terror group. (MORE) PTI
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