Pak to extend all help to India to fight terror

Attari/New Delhi (PTI) - Striking a positive
note ahead of the Indo-Pak talks, Pakistan Foreign Secretary
Salman Bashir Monday said Islamabad would extend all required
cooperation to India on the terror issue and share related
information.
Crossing over the Attari-Wagah border, Bashir, who
will meet Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao Tuesday in Delhi,
said the effort on both the sides was to deepen understanding.
The two Foreign Secretaries are expected to discuss
Confidence Building Measures, concerns on terror and steps to
enhance people-to-people contacts and prepare the agenda for
the meeting of External Affairs Minister S M Krishna with his
Pakistan counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar on Wednesday.
"It is good to be here back in Delhi for me personally
and for my team. We are here a day ahead to prepare for the
foreign ministers meeting. The Foreign Secretary of India was
in Islamabad and we have covered some ground. We hope to
give the preparations a final touch (at our) meeting
tomorrow.," Bashir said on arrival at the Delhi airport from
Amritsar.
"We had good engagement process for the last five six
months and we hope that this will be productive and lead to a
good meeting of the two foreign ministers," he said.
Bashir referred to the meeting of Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and Pakistan Premier Yusuf Raza Gilani at
Thimphu and Mohali where they decided to take forward the
dialogue process.
"Yes, Thimphu and Mohali spirit will certainly help. I
think there is no trust deficit so far as the leadership level
is concerned. What we call the trust deficit has to be more
clearly understood. I think, basically, the effort is to
actually build greater understanding. Instead of saying trust
deficit, I would say deepening of understanding," he said.
Bashir said Pakistan was committed to implement its
anti-terrorism polices with utmost sincerity.
Asked about the recent serial blasts in Mumbai, he
said Pakistan desired to find out the real accused and their
faces should be unmasked.
Pakistan, he said, would extend all cooperation to
India in its fight against terror.
On the agenda for the talks, Bashir said Kashmir would
figure in the deliberations.
Insisting that Kashmir was the core issue for
Pakistan, Bashir said it would be conveyed to New Delhi that
Islamabad had no role in the violence in Jammu and Kashmir.
34-year-old Khar, Pakistan's youngest and first women
Foreign Minister would arrive here tomorrow for the
ministerial parleys.